
Chapter 37 - Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch
Alzabo Soup
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Cervarion's Masking Day
There is something notable there about how much denial and how much emotional baggage is wrapped up in this one little execution. He was clearly unprepared when he should have been a little bit more on the ball. There's another really big component to this, right? Catherine in the ritual says to Cevarian, I forgive you for what you do, right? Morwenna does not forgive Cevarian in that moment. Instead, he's trying to comfort Morwenna and say, I will make this as painless as it possibly can be. But Morwenna never says what you're doing is right. So, incredibly well.
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