A small preface:
Me about a week ago: “You know, it’s fun having the smart fans in the genre.”
Unnamed friend: “How do you know you have the smart ones?”
Me: “You wouldn’t have to ask if you saw how creative some of them can be while attempting to get spoilers.”
That is offered up as an explanation for the following somewhat terse responses.
QUESTION 1: In DM Claire describes Faerie and Earth’s timelines as two rivers that sometimes run parallel and sometimes bow away from each other, causing more time to pass in the one bending away before meeting back up with the other. Pritkin says in ETN that time in the demon realms moves much the same as in Faerie only more so. We’ve only had the example of it passing more quickly when Pritkin spent a decade there while centuries passed on Earth. Unless you can count Rosier regenerating his body slightly faster than expected. I’m not sure about that one since it was only a matter of days, and Cassie was confused as to how much time had actually passed. So, does the river analogy also apply to the demon realms, the only difference being time moves even more slowly in the bends? I guess that’s a roundabout way of asking if time in the demon realms can pass both faster and slower than on Earth.
Yes.
QUESTION 2: Even though Pritkin is only supposed to possess a small amount of fey blood, he and Cassie as a whole seem to represent all the different types of beings in their world; gods, demons, humans, and fey. I don’t think I’m forgetting anyone… I’m not counting vamps and weres because you said they’re just humans with a metaphysical disease. That makes it seem like they’re not really an entirely different being on their own. Even though I’m sure they wouldn’t appreciate me lumping them in with the humans :) This seems too symmetrical, assuming I’m not missing anything, to be a coincidence, but I suppose it could happen if they were given these traits for a different reason. Is this intentional and significant to the story, or is it just a really interesting coincidence?
Nice one.
QUESTION 3: Do you have a name for the next Cassie book? If it’s too early, what kind of ideas are you throwing around? (And would us fans be able to contribute to that somehow?)
Hmmm. But that would require telling you the plot, wouldn’t it?
QUESTION 4: Any words of wisdom/comfort for those of us who are equally in love with Pritkin AND Mircea???
No.
QUESTION 5: I would love to know more about Cassie’s and Pritkin’s expected lifespan now that we know more about what they both are and who their parents were. So, how long has Pritkin been alive, and is he aging now? And also, is Cassie aging at a normal rate? (I believe there may be a difference between how many years have passed since Pritkin’s birth, and how many years he’s actually been alive, as time moved differently during his time in Hell?)
Do you hear something?