I get the feeling this set of filler strips is gonna be one long tease as her decision will be addressed in the main story and that this one probably wont give the answer.
The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
She whips a pistol from her knickers.
She aims it at the creature’s head
And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
by James Thurber
One afternoon a big wolf waited in a dark forest for a little girl to come along carrying a basket of food to her grandmother. Finally a little girl did come along and she was carrying a basket of food. “Are you carrying that basket to your grandmother?” asked the wolf. The little girl said yes, she was. So the wolf asked her where her grandmother lived and the little girl told him and he disappeared into the wood.
When the little girl opened the door of her grandmother’s house she saw that there was somebody in bed with a nightcap and nightgown on. She had approached no nearer than twenty-five feet from the bed when she saw that it was not her grandmother but the wolf, for even in a nightcap a wolf does not look any more like your grandmother than the Metro-Goldwyn lion looks like Calvin Coolidge. So the little girl took an automatic out of her basket and shot the wolf dead.
(Moral: It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be.)
Or maybe it’s a continuation of the “I don’t have speech problems” thing. When she had the flashback after the Sarnothi tale, there were no extra s’s, so she might not even realize she does it.
I’m starting to think that Sarnothi have fundamentally different dream psychology than humans, and having spiritual “friends”/guides/advisors is part of that.
Best dream-friend ever
I get the feeling this set of filler strips is gonna be one long tease as her decision will be addressed in the main story and that this one probably wont give the answer.
It occurred to me that Paul looks a bit like the Eel spirit. Coincidence or something else?
Partial memory of stories her mother told her?
… Selkie isn’t gonna be dream-killed again is she?
Considering the things we’ve seen the her people do, we don’t know that Paul isn’t actually the Eel Spirit in disguise
I would not be at all surprised.
The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
She whips a pistol from her knickers.
She aims it at the creature’s head
And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
— Little Red Riding Hod and the Wolf
Thanks now all I can think of is Tokyo Akazukin (18+ warning if you chose to google that stuff)
Funny, but it made ME think of this; http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=6052
I thought immediately of B.B. Hood from Darkstalkers. I think I now know where they got the inspiration for her.
From James Thurber’s “Fables For Our Times” 1940
The Little Girl and the Wolf
by James Thurber
One afternoon a big wolf waited in a dark forest for a little girl to come along carrying a basket of food to her grandmother. Finally a little girl did come along and she was carrying a basket of food. “Are you carrying that basket to your grandmother?” asked the wolf. The little girl said yes, she was. So the wolf asked her where her grandmother lived and the little girl told him and he disappeared into the wood.
When the little girl opened the door of her grandmother’s house she saw that there was somebody in bed with a nightcap and nightgown on. She had approached no nearer than twenty-five feet from the bed when she saw that it was not her grandmother but the wolf, for even in a nightcap a wolf does not look any more like your grandmother than the Metro-Goldwyn lion looks like Calvin Coolidge. So the little girl took an automatic out of her basket and shot the wolf dead.
(Moral: It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be.)
AAAAAAAA A ROALD DAHL REFERENCE
MY DAY
YOU HAVE MADE IT
Is it odd that in this page I imagined Paul having a hippieish voice, yet in his last appearance I thought he sounded more like a chauffeur?
huh. dream selkie doesn’t have the redundant s quirk
Presumably this is all happening in her own language.
Or alternatively, it could be that Selkie wishes to be able to lose the “s”, and her dream self reflects her idealized version of herself.
Or maybe it’s a continuation of the “I don’t have speech problems” thing. When she had the flashback after the Sarnothi tale, there were no extra s’s, so she might not even realize she does it.
Yay, Paul the sky dragon! Although I can sense impending introspection…
The first time I saw this, I read “Miss Smith” as “Matt Smith.”
OMG, McBehrer, me too! Maybe we just have the Doctor on our minds…..
I’m starting to think that Sarnothi have fundamentally different dream psychology than humans, and having spiritual “friends”/guides/advisors is part of that.
Can she bake a cherry pie, Paulie Boy, Paulie Boy? / Can she bake a cherry pie, Paul the Dragon?