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there is a specter haunting the Comet. it is the specter of a puppygirl abandoned to an ambiguous fate
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something interesting going on here with dana and lenore vis a vis trust and paranoia. lenore paranoid enough to abscond from the ewl putting her trust in old comrades. dana burned by a poisoned faith in silverbark hesitant and mistrusting. really enjoying the ways these two are playing off each other
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again an insistence on dana's part that this kind of quirk/oddity has to Mean Something. it's not just that the voidshell didn't pop. there has to be some kind of narrativised conspiracy behind it because despite her cynicism i think dana's still very much buying into the narrative fantasy of silverbark and the ewl. evil and cruelty are mundane and i don't think that's a revelation that'll sit well with her.
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god this is nailing the oddly liberatory nature of realizing that when your old life implodes that also includes the arbitrary confines and limitations of said life. feeling very Normal about the vibes of these lines. also feeling Normal about the way godfeels dave is always precision-engineered in some ways to hit me in the core emotionally right at the point in my life where i'd feel it the most.
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thinking about dana trying to puzzle out silverbark's motives in conjunction with the prior chapter. getting the sense that in dana's world nothing can ever just be incidental.