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| Healing the Long Cleeve by TopazTook | 161 Review(s) |
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| Lyta Padfoot | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 7/18/2004 |
| Eglantine finding Pippin's scars was a difficult scene to read. I could imagine my own mother's quiet horror at seeing the evidence of so much past hurt. Paladin may not have been invaded, but he had to make compromises close to home. I know old treaties were often sealed with marriages, but it still seems rather callous. I suppose the Proudfoots and North-tooks might have thought Paladin less likely to abandon them if his children were married to theirs. Still, poor Pippin and Pervinca. I hope their marriages work out for them. Author Reply: That's why Pippin didn't want to tell his mother. The arranged marriages were very much a part of history, particularly in noble families. Sometimes they became love matches, and sometimes they didn't. I tried to portray it as an anguished decision for Paladin to make -- and he's also letting it be just as much Pippin' s choice to go along with it. As for what happens with Pippin's and Pervinca's marriages...well, it wouldn't be much of a story if I told you what happens, now would it? | |