Maybe my son's evil cold did me a favor after all. I got to finish Tailchaser's Song today! Our Christmas cards probably won't be going out until next week, but I DID get to finish my book! I have to say that I enjoyed it. Williams is a very inventive writer, who made many little tributes to Tolkein, and who sometimes just wrote beautiful prose. Quote:Now, leaning over the pond, he saw a strange thing; a cat, dark-furred, but with a star-mark like his own, looked up at him from underneath the water. Surprised, he leaped back -- as he did, the water-cat took fright also, and disappeared. When he moved back slowly, the other peered cautiously up at him through the still waters. His hackles standing, Tailchaser hissed at the stranger -- who did likewise -- but as he crouched, a rock, dislodged by his paw, fell into the pond. Where it struck, circular ripples marred the surface of the pondwater in an ever-widening ring. before his eyes the water-cat fell to pieces, floating shards, and was gone. Only when the face of the stranger re-formed, wearing a look of astonishment matching his own, did Fritti realize that it was no real beast, but a spirit or watershadow that mimicked his every movement. Can't you just see the whole thing??? Winter is Coming Blood and Fire Unbowed,Unbent,Unbroken<i>Edited by: Duchess of Malfi at: 12/20/02 7:01:42 pm </i>
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