Flight of the Heron read-along: Part IV chapter 7

[regshoe]

Let friendship and honour unite...

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Next week we'll read the first two chapters of Part V. I will be busy on the Saturday a) celebrating Christmas and b) reading Yuletide fic, so I'll probably put the post up on Sunday.

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[regshoe]

Wonderful commentary—yes, I love the mutual comfort and how they're each so much concerned about the other.

Ewen really is showing a great deal of strength and endurance, in being so composed and cheerful after what he must have endured in that dungeon—much less bad than what Guthrie and Greening subjected him to, of course, but then he hasn't really had a chance to recover properly either.

Aargh, the pen knife! Such a beautiful moment for demonstrating the honourable principles of both of them. And Ewen showing his own regard for honour in respecting Keith's, simply and naturally and at the cost of his own chance of escape, is what finally sets off that realisation for Keith.

So many would be pulling back now, unwilling to embrace a man who is about to die and take half their heart with them -- but not Keith. Keith, after years of holding himself apart, is all in.

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He knows what wounds exist in Keith's soul, and he wants to see them healed -- and to that end, hits upon the scheme of reminding Keith of the best version of himself. I am just bowled away by the amount of perspicacity and generosity and love in that.

!! Yes, that's it exactly—reminding Keith of the best version of himself, who he becomes when he's around Ewen. Aaargh, this is such a beautiful relationship. Also a very good point about how well Ewen understands Keith—juvpu fhttrfgf fhpu ybiryl, arire-gb-or-shysvyyrq cbffvovyvgvrf sbe jung gurl pbhyq unir unq gbtrgure va gur shgher unq Xrvgu fheivirq. :(