Friday, May 20, 2016

Name of the Wind - Chapters 4 - 6

Chapter 4
Chronicler has had trouble finding a horse and is walking around in the evening when he stumbles upon Kote by a bonfire waiting for spider-monsters. One of the scrael knocks chronicler unconscious. When he comes to, Kote says he killed 5 of the things and plans to bury them. Chronicler passes out again. Kote reveals he was wounded in the attack.

Okay, this is starting to get good!  Hopefully these scrawl are the beginning of a full on demon invasion! Let find out wh Kote and Bast can do about it.  Chronicler should definitely just find something to hide behind.

Chapter 5
Kote returns to the inn and Bast tends to his wounds.

Bast mentions something about thinking Kote isn't suppose to bleed - is he human? Some hints that maybe Bast is the one that's not human - calls Kote's "people" primitives and sings a song about lending some of his Immortality.

Chapter 6
Chronicler wakes up in Kote's inn. He knows who Kote is and was looking for him. Kote is pissed. Apparently some serious shit went down in the past and Kote is afraid for his life. Also: not everyone believes Kote is the good guy. Kote has also heard of Chronicler - he was famous for a book debunking the existence of dragons. He offers Kote a a chance to set the record straight. Kote reluctantly agrees, but wants 3 days to tell his story.  Chronicler agrees, reluctantly, since it will make him late to his next appointment.


I had a moment of confused loyalties as I had liked both characters so far and then it seemed like they would be at odds. Then it became clear that this was a device to set up the backstory. Now I'm wondering if the bulk of the book will consist of the story Kote tells Chronicler or if it will be a shorter backstory to set up more action in the present.

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