I loved this story so much. It was wonderful to have really great Susan story. And though Susan does not like adventures, wars, and fighting, still she faces this creature, because she must and because she promised. I find the inversion of light and dark really fascinating. Usually the light is, of course to combat the dark.
This whole pasasge is just fascinating: "The siren is a creature of reflections, born of lightning on the winter sea. ... Cold and light feed its power and no being born of the sea can gainsay its command, though we who are female can at the least resist its lure. You are a Daughter of Eve, born of dreams and flesh. Your power comes from the warmth of blood and the darkness of the beating heart; the siren has no strength against that magic. You must close your eyes and dream the enemy into the final dark."
This is utterly unique and an inversion of so much of the usual -- that dreams are the danger and the lie, that dark is to be feared, that the heart is not to be trusted. And the Siren takes all these good things and twists them. And that Susan's weapon is the darkness, dark earth, dark stone, dark water, was just amazing and wonderful.
Your development of the sense of place and the descriptions of the stone, the water, the eastern door, it was all wonderfully evocative. Susan is stronger than she would wish to be and called to do great things! A wonderful story!
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Date: 2013-09-24 01:43 am (UTC)This whole pasasge is just fascinating:
"The siren is a creature of reflections, born of lightning on the winter sea. ... Cold and light feed its power and no being born of the sea can gainsay its command, though we who are female can at the least resist its lure. You are a Daughter of Eve, born of dreams and flesh. Your power comes from the warmth of blood and the darkness of the beating heart; the siren has no strength against that magic. You must close your eyes and dream the enemy into the final dark."
This is utterly unique and an inversion of so much of the usual -- that dreams are the danger and the lie, that dark is to be feared, that the heart is not to be trusted. And the Siren takes all these good things and twists them. And that Susan's weapon is the darkness, dark earth, dark stone, dark water, was just amazing and wonderful.
Your development of the sense of place and the descriptions of the stone, the water, the eastern door, it was all wonderfully evocative. Susan is stronger than she would wish to be and called to do great things! A wonderful story!