EQ Readthrough: Issue 2, Raid at Sorrow's End

[elf]

LINK: Issue 2: Raid at Sorrow's End
Questions for this issue:

• What did you find most interesting about the trip through the desert?
• How could the raid have been prevented? What would have changed?
• What did you think of the display of healing powers?

Main OQR post with prompt questions
Note: These aren't mandatory questions; they're meta prompts. If you don't care for any of them, or want to tangent from them to some other topic, that's fine too.

Comments

[dancing_serpent]

Maybe that moment of recognition is somehow too intense for him to be able to make a difference between love and lust.

On the other hand - he talks about having his heart stolen but in the moment when he meets Leetah's eyes for the first time it says "and Cutter suddenly knows a different kind of thirst". I think that's very much indicating a physical drive.

Yes, that part confused me, too. That's not the only contradiction, too, when it comes to the Sun Fulk and violence. Hm, have to think a bit about that - there's no clear picture in my mind yet.

[anke]

It might be a cultural thing. The Wolfriders just seem to expect that a recognised couple is meant to be lifemates.

I see a similarity between that and real-life attitudes - Hollywood and other modern media telling us that love/lust at first sight is "true love" that's meant to last forever.

[dancing_serpent]

Hollywood and other modern media telling us that love/lust at first sight is "true love" that's meant to last forever.
True! Very annoying, that.

[anke]

Also, as to the violence bit... It seems odd when you have read more of the comics and seen what big deal an elf killing another elf is later, and you re-read this and see Treestump suggesting Strongbow should maybe shoot Rayek before he can cause trouble.

[dancing_serpent]

Yes, that. Also, Leetah says "Please don't kill Rayek". Why does she do so if the concept or hurting someone deliberately seems so alien to her?