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Way to piss off your daughter, Darken. She won't forget that you favour the younger child because he's your son, and she's just a girl. I predict this will bite you in the ass later... OMG, yes. This is such an issue. I'm afraid Darken's focus is more on Nicholas, his heir, rather than Nila--but in fact he underestimates Nicholas as well. Gloves aren't exactly a panacea in this case...
Justifying his crimes? If this were true, Nicholas would be compelled to execute every Mord'Sith in the Palace. I'm not impressed Kahlan. Kahlan's looking for any excuse--she knows male Confessors are evil, but not her son, no...
Then Kahlan tries to smooth things over and Darken tells Nila not to touch; after his dismissal of her concerns I'm guessing that's exactly what she'll do. Play with the Mirror. She's certainly headed for trouble--the People's Palace attics are not a safe place to play.
I thought the Confessors were just taught by their elders; meditations or something to help them keep their focus and not let their emotions overcome them. Quite what it does entail and what Kahlan will tell Rahl...I'm intrigued :D I always think there's a bit more to it than that--it must be hard to be a Confessor, always on the lookout not to release your power--my guess is the training could be pretty intense.
Nicholas's gloves seem more like this danger signal, though I don't know if bare skin must touch bare skin for Confession under normal [non Con Dar] circumstances. Me neither, actually; Darken's just taking the path of least resistance, thinking the problem is Nicholas's control.
Black gloves as a sign of danger--this reminds me of the Voyager episode where everyone has on black gloves, and our heroes are evil, and then Tuvok smiles...it turned out to just be some other society's retelling, but I thought it made an interesting AU ;)
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Date: 2011-02-21 09:43 pm (UTC)Way to piss off your daughter, Darken. She won't forget that you favour the younger child because he's your son, and she's just a girl. I predict this will bite you in the ass later... OMG, yes. This is such an issue. I'm afraid Darken's focus is more on Nicholas, his heir, rather than Nila--but in fact he underestimates Nicholas as well. Gloves aren't exactly a panacea in this case...
Justifying his crimes? If this were true, Nicholas would be compelled to execute every Mord'Sith in the Palace. I'm not impressed Kahlan. Kahlan's looking for any excuse--she knows male Confessors are evil, but not her son, no...
Then Kahlan tries to smooth things over and Darken tells Nila not to touch; after his dismissal of her concerns I'm guessing that's exactly what she'll do. Play with the Mirror. She's certainly headed for trouble--the People's Palace attics are not a safe place to play.
I thought the Confessors were just taught by their elders; meditations or something to help them keep their focus and not let their emotions overcome them. Quite what it does entail and what Kahlan will tell Rahl...I'm intrigued :D I always think there's a bit more to it than that--it must be hard to be a Confessor, always on the lookout not to release your power--my guess is the training could be pretty intense.
Nicholas's gloves seem more like this danger signal, though I don't know if bare skin must touch bare skin for Confession under normal [non Con Dar] circumstances. Me neither, actually; Darken's just taking the path of least resistance, thinking the problem is Nicholas's control.
Black gloves as a sign of danger--this reminds me of the Voyager episode where everyone has on black gloves, and our heroes are evil, and then Tuvok smiles...it turned out to just be some other society's retelling, but I thought it made an interesting AU ;)