| Re: Nine-fingered slave boy.
I liked Wintrow - being taken out of a priesthood life where he obviously fit in perfectly and excelled at everything he had to do and forced to become a ships boy where he didnt fit in or do well at much is one heck of a big change and he still tried to follow what he believed was his true calling - to spread word of God to everyone. At the end I half expected him to go back to his monastery, but he had become too accustomed to being on the ship, and i dont think he could bear to leave Vivacia, even though their bond had changed so much.
I did expect to see more when Amber found her nine-fingered slave boy and that was a bit disappointing, but then i thought maybe it wasnt Wintrow that she needed to see - Wintrow just guided her to where she needed to be, where she had to help push events in the right direction, untangle the threads as it were...
I was disappointed when Kennit died too... i hated him through the start of the series, but when i found out that he had been abused so much, that Paragon was his ship and they were bonded like Wintrow and Vivacia had been, and that paragon had taken the parts of kennit that were harming him, leaving him as a kind of half-person, i felt sorry for him. but at least when he died he was a whole person again and at peace |