"'Tonight - We'll not deceive Father and Mother. The first chaplain we find can marry us.'
"'But, uh, your cathedral wedding -'
"'I've come to see how little it matters, how little the universe does, next to having you while I can. Tonight, Dominic. Now.'" (p. 534)
If we continue to read this passage, then we run straight into Djana's curse on Flandry. OK, here are the next two sentences:
"He seized her to him.
"A flash went blue-white in the front windows." (ibid.)
The flash was a tactical nuke destroying Kossara's home and killing her family. Djana had willed that Flandry never have the woman that he really wanted.
But what I wanted to draw attention to was Kossara's suddenly changed sense of priorities. It can be good to have a big problem now and again because:
a big problem chases out little problems;
we learn that even big problems usually pass.
At least, we survive until we die - although, unfortunately, Kossara herself will not survive this crisis.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And that chaplain was almost certainly the priest whose parish was the manor of Kossara's father and its environs. We see mention of the estate also having a chapel.
But it was not Djana's curse on Flandry which CAUSED that tactical nuke to kill Kossara's family and their retainers. It was Aycharaych's agents who did that!
Ad astra! Sean
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