Dan Coffin learns to love the Rustumite lowlands in "My Own, My Native Land" and that he cannot marry Mary Lochaber but must settle for the more compatible Eva Spain in "Passing the Love of Women."
This second realization is accompanied by appropriately dramatic weather:
"...a rising wind roared in treetops..." (p. 83)
There is thunder and lightning.
"Wind skirled, thunder cannonaded." (p. 84)
Rain smites Dan's face but he sees a new beginning in Eva's eyes. Each instalment carries the Rustumite History steadily forward and we are sorry that, after this one, there will be only two more.
Onward, Earthlings.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Iow, we are supposed to think of Dan Coffin feeling first anger, frustration, bitterness, etc. Then acceptance and the realization he could still know happiness with Eva Spain.
After the stories set directly on Rustum we do get one more story set in that timeline: "The Queen of Air and Darkness."
Ad astra! Sean
Ad astra! Sean
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