Good way to drop the hint. I think Todd has a clue and is likely to go STRAIGHT to Avery on this. The moment Pohl says to Avery “Can’t say. Vow of Father’s Fangs.” He will immediately realize that Then is up to some shenanigans.
Between this and Ghien’s initial reaction when he thought Selkie’s Echo abilities were impaired, I can’t shake the feeling that at least part of the reason Selkie’s mother put that inhibitor on her was to protect her from, well, this.
Still don’t agree with it – that should be Selkie’s decision to make, when she was old enough to understand the consequences – but I can see how circumstances forced her to pick the least worst of a set of potential bad outcomes.
Remember that Elder in the group of Echoes that just got rescued? He said his Echo ability didn’t manifest until he was nine and Selkie said she was also nine.
Except Selkie’s Echo ability manifested when she was a toddler, which prompted her mom to make that suppressor.
I’ve always felt like she did that and then turned her over to a human orphanage for two reasons: Selkie couldn’t be used as a hostage against her *and* couldn’t be raised to be a weapon.
Yeah, I’m suspecting more and more that you’re right. Certainly about the weapon part – that’s getting increasingly obvious as a risk to Selkie – and between Plo Quar’s past and the project Then brought up (and the odds Plo Quar is part of it,) I can see where she’d decide her daughter was safer without that obvious connection.
Well done, Pohl.
Not breaking the Vow but definitely planting a seed.
Pohl, once again, proves he has no deceit in his heart.
Good way to drop the hint. I think Todd has a clue and is likely to go STRAIGHT to Avery on this. The moment Pohl says to Avery “Can’t say. Vow of Father’s Fangs.” He will immediately realize that Then is up to some shenanigans.
Between this and Ghien’s initial reaction when he thought Selkie’s Echo abilities were impaired, I can’t shake the feeling that at least part of the reason Selkie’s mother put that inhibitor on her was to protect her from, well, this.
Still don’t agree with it – that should be Selkie’s decision to make, when she was old enough to understand the consequences – but I can see how circumstances forced her to pick the least worst of a set of potential bad outcomes.
Remember that Elder in the group of Echoes that just got rescued? He said his Echo ability didn’t manifest until he was nine and Selkie said she was also nine.
Except Selkie’s Echo ability manifested when she was a toddler, which prompted her mom to make that suppressor.
I’ve always felt like she did that and then turned her over to a human orphanage for two reasons: Selkie couldn’t be used as a hostage against her *and* couldn’t be raised to be a weapon.
Yeah, I’m suspecting more and more that you’re right. Certainly about the weapon part – that’s getting increasingly obvious as a risk to Selkie – and between Plo Quar’s past and the project Then brought up (and the odds Plo Quar is part of it,) I can see where she’d decide her daughter was safer without that obvious connection.