Slim Doesine glanced at the women around her. “What motion are we standing for?”
“An important one,” Saerin said.
“Well, I suppose I’ll stand for it, then.”
“As will I, Yukiri said.
Ah yes. Of all the disappointments in the final books, that was a particular low point.
I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to read the characters RJ thought he was writing. Like Gawyn. Who was Gawyn supposed to be? A conflicted but well-meaning romantic? I presume he wasn't actually intended to have the brains of a pigeon and the sense of a lemming.
You'd think the Tower would have set up regional 'hospitals' long ago. Under the guise of helping people they could have steadily and inexorably expanded their influence into other nations, all in such a way that if the local rulers ever tried to oust them there'd be riots in the streets. But I suppose what seems obvious to us wouldn't occur to people in a world that's never heard of hospitals.
