Flight of the Heron read-along: Part V chapter 5 and Epilogue

[regshoe]

Better loved ye cannae be...

The final chapter.

I'm planning to do a sort of wrap-up post in a couple of days' time for any last thoughts, and to recommend some Flight of the Heron fic and some other books that may be of interest. I will say goodbye and thank you properly then!

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[sanguinity]

And only a chapter ago, Ewen had been so happy at the thought that he had one more meeting with Keith in his future! *bawls*


I'd like to add to regshoe's collection of lines that are currently tearing me up:

“My dearest on earth,” he said, but not as he had said it a year ago, for the gift he asked meant even more now,—“my dearest on earth, give me your kiss!”

When he first says "My dearest on earth" to Alison, way back in the prologue, there's a happy innocence to it and the strong implication that she is his dearest because he has no other dear to him.

But here in the epilogue... Now she is his dearest on earth -- for his other dear one no longer lives. And the gift of her kiss means more now than it did then, because he never had the gift of his other dear one's kiss. He kissed Keith, but that kiss was never -- and now never will be -- returned.

[regshoe]

And only a chapter ago, Ewen had been so happy at the thought that he had one more meeting with Keith in his future! *bawls*

I knowwwww :( :(

...I am very grateful to you for making that point about that line. I was going to say the same thing—have thought it for some time—but wasn't sure of myself, and now I feel better about it. Genuinely, thank you!

[luzula]

Aaaah. That is a lovely interpretation that I didn't see myself, but I'm glad you made it.

[hyarrowen]

I kinda hate myself for noticing that Ewen only calls Alison his dearest on earth before he meets Keith and after he loses him...

[hyarrowen]

Re-reading this comment - dearest on earth is something that I'd missed before. Which makes me want to write afterlife fic. Hmm.

[regshoe]

Ooh, that sounds intriguing!