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E Pericoloso Sporgersi · Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:59 am

Caroline Tredez wrote:So...

I'm not ready for this, not yet, not so soon.
Who isn't ready ? What is "this" ?

If this is *not* an exact literal quote then it may be from the last chapter of 'Memory': Elli Quinn does not yet consider herself ready to accept the admiralcy of the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:50 pm

It is a litteral quote, word for word, of a thought. And it's not Quinn.

@VorAlfred : excellent !

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:31 pm

sweetharleygirl, about snow on October 6th

Seriously: in Paladin of Souls, Ista, about getting her second sight back, or, more generally, realizing that the Gods are not yet finished with her?

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 4:48 am

Nope, neither Ista nor in Paladin of Souls.

nperry · Post by **nperry** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:30 pm

Is it Ekaterin Vorsoisson not being ready for a relationship/marriage?

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:42 am

Voralfred already answered Ekaterin, and I've already said : no.

It's neither Ekaterin, nor in Komarr, nor in A Civil Campaign.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:00 pm

In some TSK: Dag, about being a patrol leader again (OK, so not in TKS1 nor TSK2, he goes on patrols but not as leader; either TSK3 against the rogue Lakewalker, whatsisname, Crane, or something like that, or TSK4 against one or the other of the malices)

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:55 pm

Caroline Tredez wrote:Voralfred already answered Ekaterin, and I've already said : no.

It's neither Ekaterin, nor in Komarr, nor in A Civil Campaign.

After all, in both, Ekaterin was insisting that she wasn't EVER getting married again. It wouldn't have been a "not so soon," it would have been a "no way!" And of course, we don't see her thoughts in Winterfair Gifts, where she might have been having second, third, and probably twentieth thoughts (solely based on her previous experience with Tien, of course).

It's only been 3 1/2 days, so I'll spare you my guesses for another day or two.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:26 am

Not Dag, and not in TSK either

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:01 am

Trois fois tu me dis "Non"!
Tu veux ma mort, ou quoi!

Suzette: Caroline's question was on the 15th, 1:37pm.
Just another 9 and a half hours (give or take a few minutes) and you can guess!

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:31 am

OK, Suzette, take us out of our misery, already!
"On achÃ¨ve bien les chevaux" ("They shoot horses, don't they?")

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:35 pm

I've looked a couple different places, and still haven't found it, so I'm no help (though before Caroline said it wasn't Dag, I was thinking it might be him in Passage when the crowd demands he heals someone's wife after healing Hod, or possibly Horizon when he goes to heal the boy with lockjaw).

Granted, I've been a bit busy with a bunch of projects that need to be done by the end of the month, so I haven't been looking as hard as I ordinarily would. That, and it's not placing itself for me (best guesses were Dag or Ista, and neither one is it). I'm a lazy guesser. If I have an idea, I'll go searching till I find it. If I don't, I wait to see if I get an idea from the clues.

About my best guess at this point is Falling Free, with Leo not being ready for the situation with the Quaddies to come to a head (with the program getting shut down before they were ready to highjack the ship).

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:04 pm

Not Leo, not Falling Free

A slight extension, as too much would definitely be too revealing :

I'm not ready for this, not yet, not so soon. What was right ?

There already are a lot of "negative clues", places where it isn't and people who didn't think it. If no one founds it, I may restrict the place to search still further.

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:08 pm

A couple of questions about the extension: Is the last sentence complete, or part of the next sentence, and is it in italics, or is it not part of the thought?

It's still not sending any obvious signals to me. Must be from one of the books I haven't read as much.

Either that, or I'm overdue for a series re-read.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:46 am

Last sentence isn't only complete, it's the end of the paragraph. I checked the typography : italics are respected.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:57 am

Half-hearted attempt.
"Spirit Ring", Fiametta about trying some particularly tricky magical trick (trying to animate the statue, maybe?)

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:17 am

Not Fiametta, not in Spirit Ring

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:18 am

So let's recapituate:

not Spirit Ring
not TSK

in Chalion's world: not _PoS_ so _HH_ or _CoC_ but not Ista

in the Saga
- not Falling Free
- not Komarr
-not _CC_
and in all the others, neither Quinn nor Ekaterin

Only just a few possibilities

etc. etc.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:06 pm

You know, Caroline, after going

then

and then asking Suzette for

unless you give some more hints I'll go completely

and it will all be your fault!

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:24 pm

Mais j'ai rien fait ! (comment Ã§a c'est ce que tu me reproches ?) ^^

It's somewhere in the Vorkosiverse. I'll go further (since original quote is going pretty cold) : it's thought by a Vorkosigan.

Now, which one, and what it "this" in

I'm not ready for this, not yet, not so soon. What was right ?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:31 pm

I'm too tired to go check now, so just a guess
Mirror Dance
Mark, at the beginning of the book, "this" is stealing a Dendarii ship (cum Squadron) for his mad aventure

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:37 pm

Not Mark, not in Mirror Dance...

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:27 pm

voralfred wrote:I'm too tired to go check now, so just a guess
Mirror Dance
Mark, at the beginning of the book, "this" is stealing a Dendarii ship (cum Squadron) for his mad aventure

Checked that already

I'm going to take a shot in the dark (since I don't have the book), and guess Ingrey in Hallowed Hunt. I've got no context (could be after he fought the persuasion/freed his wolf, and Horseriver showed up?)... If nothing else, a confirmation one way or the other would keep me from getting the book from the library to check it.

Got out my copy of Dreamweaver's Dilemma to look for it, but haven't actually gotten that far yet.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:19 am

Isn't Dreamweaver's Dilemma out of bounds? I think we decided to exclude the novella as well as the short stories published only in that collection ("only" means that _MoM_ is of course OK)
Anyway in this specific question, Caroline has told us a few posts above that not only is it in the Vorkosiverse, but the thinker is a Vorkosigan. But not Mark.
So this leaves: Piotr, Aral, (Cordelia, after her wedding?) or Miles.

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:06 am

Gah, I missed that hint altogether. How'd that happen??

My biggest problem at the moment is that it just doesn't sound like Miles (even in his funks). And I thought I'd checked Cordelia. And since it's a thought, it can't be Piotr or Aral.

Re: Dreamweaver's Dilemma, I don't remember the last consensus. I'd _thought_ it was that the short fiction was ok, but the non-fiction was out, but it was really only based on two opinion statements. It didn't seem that many people saw the post asking if we were expanding to Horizon, and whether to add DD.