Dragaera

Teckla, Cawti, Book Covers, and Whatnot

Fri Jun 7 22:09:41 PDT 2002

Just my own two cents...

Even in _Yendi_ Cawti and Vlad fought over his attitude towards the
suffering of the Easterners.
I think her attitude was exacerbated by the fact that, ... well... seems to
me she's idle most of the time.

When Cawti was *working* it seems she only worked one expensive contract at
a time, thus giving her lots of leisure time.
After Cawti married Vlad, the situation became even worse, aside from
helping with the odd crisis that Vlad was involved in, she had little to do,
even her former partner had retired.  Vlad, on the other hand, was immersed
in his business, interacting with the grubby world on a daily basis. On one
hand, it's was easy for Vlad to view the organisation and the empire as
insurmountable obstacles, he had to deal with aspects of it on a daily
basis. On the other, Cawti's lack of immersion in the real world, and her
abundant free time, made her ripe to become a disciple of the people's
movement.  Let's face it, she was/is a talented woman with too much time on
her hands.

Now, as Mia mentioned, the South Adrilanka territory is quite the quandary
for Cawti: if she does nothing with it, the Organization will take it away
>from her - they want their income. If she shuts down certain aspects of the
business, ie: prostitution and gambling, someone else will provide the Johns
and gamblers with their fix. Perhaps a Teckla organisation will form within
South Adrilanka to provide the services Cawti is too principled to provide?
I'm sure the Jhereg would love that.

Assuming Vlad is now returning to Adrilanka, I wonder if he'll have obtained
the perspective necessary to join Cawti in her fight... and now that Cawti
is embroiled in the day-to-day struggles of running an area, I wonder if
_she_ will still have the stomach for her fight.

-Scott Ingram

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mia McDavid" <mia_mcdavid at attbi.com>
To: <dragaera at dragaera.info>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: Teckla, Cawti, Book Covers, and Whatnot


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>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Teckla, Cawti, Book Covers, and Whatnot
> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 16:20:16 -0500
> From: Mia McDavid <mia_mcdavid at attbi.com>
> To: Melissa Fitzgerald <meersan at mn.astound.net>
> References: <3.0.5.32.20020607104433.007c1ce0 at astound.net>
>
> Melissa wrote:
>
> >
>  Her spouse was a hired killer--it doesn't get much worse than that.
> >
> With respect, Nuts!  *SHE* was a hired killer once upon a time,
> remember???  She knew the deal going in.  He didn't court her under any
> kind of false pretenses.  Hell, *she* killed *him*, how's that for a
> "meet cute" beginning?
>
> Yes, of course, there are economic and political imbalances in the
> Empire (as in all mundane societies we've managed to construct to date)
> that beg for redress.  Woo hoo for her that she's interested in
> redressing.
>
> What I *can't wait* for (hint, hint, Steve) is, what has she done with
> her Organization in South Adrilahnka??   I love it that that was Vlad's
> parting gift to her--a sustenance, a reproach, and a political conundrum
> all at once.  Did she just shut it down and put all those people (and
> herself) out of work?  Did give it, or sell it, to someone?  Did someone
> who wanted it worse than she *take* it?  (I doubt it!)  Can't wait to
> see!
>
> Write faster!
>
> Mia