With each new chapter, we ask:
Which character(s) will be immortal?
Will a familiar immortal have a new name?
Or will there be a new immortal?
Or both?
The first character to appear here is Matthew Edmonds. The name is unfamiliar but that does not matter. Next is an escaped female slave whom the Edmonds family conceal in their attic. One of the men tracking her tells Edmonds:
"'...she ain't jest any old runaway off a plantation. They's somethin' queer about her, somethin' real wrong.'" (pp. 263-264)
She is our candidate. In fact, she can hardly be anything else but, as far as this blog is concerned, anything else will have to wait until tomorrow.
Have a good night.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Of the nine immortals alive by this point in BOAT, one was the youngest, born not much more than a century or so before.
Ad astra! Sean
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