1 | * EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: As Dunworthy's guilt over sending Kivrin on a botched drop grows, he explicitly compares Kivrin to Christ on the cross. |
2 | * GeniusBonus: Willis has lots of historical and religious allusion in her story. Just one example: Roche believes Kivrin is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Alexandria St. Catherine]], a saint whose symbol is a wheel. When Kivrin arrives in the past, she is sitting against the wheel of a broken cart. |
3 | * TheWoobie: Holy shit, Kivrin Engle. Let's tally, shall we? She: |
4 | ** Nearly dies from influenza as soon as she makes it to the past. |
5 | ** Is put under intense scrutiny from Lady Imeyne due to her feigned EasyAmnesia. |
6 | ** [[spoiler: Turns out to have been inadvertently transported not to 1320, but to 1348 - the start of the '''Black Death.''']] |
7 | ** [[spoiler: Is forced to watch as an entire village, filled with people she's grown to know, succumbs one-by-one to plague, despite her very best efforts.]] |
8 | ** [[spoiler: Misses the rendezvous amidst all the chaos, leaving her to believe that she'll be stranded in the past.]] |
9 | ** [[spoiler: Resolves to take Rosemund, who has become the SoleSurvivor (along with Father Roche; more on that in a moment), to Scotland so that they might avoid the plague's further spread, only for Rosemund to die ''as Kivrin's speaking with her.'']] |
10 | ** [[spoiler: Discovers that Father Roche is dying of plague just as they prepare to leave, denying Kivrin even one chance to save somebody.]] |
11 | ** [[spoiler: Gets her ribs kicked in by a delirious Father Roche, leaving her in enough agony that she can't ring the bell to announce his passing as a DueToTheDead, let alone walk to the drop.]] |
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