(i) Dahut hears her father cry out and weep. Surely she should now feel compassion for him?
(ii) She also weeps - but only because her deceit has failed.
(iii) The clouds swallow the moon. The Goddess withdrawing?
(iv) Dahut can creep back into the city - and is now launched on a course of secretive plotting and manipulation.
(v) That wind that I mentioned whips her with cold.
(vi) Dead leaves rattle underfoot. The reference to death prefigures the death of Ys and the rattling gives us a third sense along her route, after the moonlight and the cold.
(vii) An eagle owl passes and vanishes with the moon. We know that this is a Sending. Queen Forsquilis spies clairvoyantly.
I have summarized just three short paragraphs.
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Kaor, Paul!
I'll respond to your points one by one, if only briefly.
(i) No, Dahut had no compassion or remorse for the pain and grief she caused her father.
(ii) I agree.
(iii) Or perhaps it was Belisama showing her displeasure at Gratillonious' defiance of her and the other Ysan gods.
(iv) I agree.
(v) Yet another example of the Andersons use of the pathetic fallacy.
(vi) I agree.
(vii) And Queen Forsquilis was loyal to Gratillonius and did all she could to support him. And to thwart Dahut's intrigues?
Sean
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