Flight of the Heron read-along: Part I chapters 5-6

[regshoe]

What is right and what is wrang, a short sword and a lang, a weak arm and a strang for to draw...

Welcome back to the read-along! This week's chapters are getting a bit more serious, historically and for our characters...

Next week we'll read the first two chapters of Part II.

Comments

[regshoe]

He strikes me very much as a professional soldier, aiming himself where he's pointed, and not having much feeling about any of it. It's a profession, no more and no less.

Yes, that's true! I suppose I expect someone in that position to have some feeling about what the profession actually involves doing, and some opinions on the enemies he's fighting. But you're right, for Keith professional ambition without much emotional detail is the important thing.

Just say you like the man, and stop pulling his pigtails.

XD

Oh dear, yes, poor militarily naive Ewen! And aww, I agree about the weirdly sweet quasi-domesticity. Actually, if you enjoyed that bit of domesticity, I have a couple of fic recs for after you've finished the book—this one is a canon divergence which starts with Keith failing to escape at Fassefern and this period lasting a bit longer, and in this one there's another period of lovely quasi-domesticity while a prisoner. (Do wait till you've finished the book though, both contain big spoilers!)

[sanguinity]

Thank you for the recs!