Flight of the Heron read-along: Part V chapters 3-4

[regshoe]

But till my last moments my words are the same: there'll never be peace until Jamie comes hame...

The penultimate week of the read-along, and in these chapters we are still very Jacobite.

Next week we will, sadly, read Part V Chapter 5 and the Epilogue.

Comments

[osprey_archer]

You'd think that at this point Ewen would have the greatest possible respect for Angus's prophecies! But maybe there just isn't room in his head to worry about Lachlan's vow of vengeance on top of everything else.

I love the bit where Aunt Margaret is all "You could tell me??? what is troubling you????" and Ewen's response is ABSOLUTELY that of a sulky teenager, for all that he's in his twenties. SHE WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND. NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND. HE MUST NEVER SPEAK OF IT TO ANYONE. Oh Ewen, God bless.

I wonder how Archie would have pried it out of him if it weren't for that fortunate happenstance that led Ewen to accidentally betray a bit of the trouble, when he thinks Archie doesn't trust him enough to tell him Lochiel's whereabouts. Doubtless Archie would have got it out of him eventually. (And yes, definitely Archie is a little fondly amused. I have the impression that, although Ewen is not generally given to dramatics, when he DOES get dramatic about something it goes very deep.)