I think Cawti's problem is very similar to the problem the revolutionaries have in general. They've become so involved in fighting for their ideals that they've forgotten to pratice those ideals. Not that tis is an unusual problem. Cawti was given, in fact was practically forced into, the oppertunity to look at her life from a new perspective. She kept this a secret from her husband, the person she should have talked about it with. She changed and then expected him to have changed as well without giving him the time and opertunity to look at things. She knew he's a reactive being. He reacted to her change. She was upset at him for it. I think that it has a lot to do with the fact that she hasn't accepted how she use to be. She despises that part of her; hates herself for it. She is, however, in her mind changed, enlightened. Why should she hate herself? So she directs her hate to someone else she loves. He now personifies the part of herself she hates and has changed. Why hasn't this part of her changed as well? Why does she love what she hates? She's forgotten that he is not her. Now the revolutionaries are angry bacause of the way the individuals have been treated: The empire hasn't looked at us Teckla and Easterners because their cycle, their system works in general. What do they do about it? They forget to look at the individuals and attack the "system". They are now noble. They know how things should be. They have a right to attack the lifestyle everybody has always known and lived by. Vlad probably could have been a really good ally if they had given him the chance; if they have tried to understand him. They don't try to understand why people are having such a hard time with this "wonderful" change. >From: "Penney, Sean" <seanp at ea.com> >To: Dragaera at dragaera.info >Subject: RE: The *real* thing? >Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:41:48 -0700 > >I don't think the strain on Vlad and Cawti's relationship has anything to >do >with chamber pots or cooking or cleaning or boredom. They are rich and >magically adept. They could pay for a housekeeper or clean the place with >sorcery. Both of their lives are exciting (to say the least). > >I think Cawti got a conscience. She got it, indirectly, from Vlad. She >killed him - it was the first time she ever "worked" on a Easterner, and it >affected her deeply. She killed him then loved him. Her best friend is a >powerful Dragon, basically a professional mass killer (or killer of the >masses). These events, plus Vlad's confession to being a Dragon/Jhereg >reborn as an easterner, made Cawti THINK about it all. Vlad never bothered >- he was too busy hating everything. Cawti stopped hating and started >caring. It was the only way she could resolve the hypocrisy of being an >assassin, a lover, a Jhereg, an easterner and a friend to the Dragon heir >to >the throne. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com