"[Lockridge] stood for a time and raged. Outside, the wind gusted under the eaves." (p. 154)
As within, so without.
When he goes outside:
"The wind streaked around him, with a rattle of dead leaves." (ibid.)
Dead leaves - death. The moon looks shrunken and he also hears the hunters.
When he rejoins Auri, who immediately says that Storm is not and cannot be the Goddess, Lockridge replies:
"'She isn't...'" (p. 156)
He has seen enough to know that Storm is not the Goddess as understood by Auri.
He has also begun to move towards a position independent of both Wardens and Rangers. More must happen in just under fifty pages. The conclusion approaches and, unlike Jack Havig, Lockridge's contribution will be in the past, not in the future.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
We see a somewhat similar reaction from a character in "The Forest," who made contact with a "god" and was repelled from that being.
Ad astra! Sean
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