9 Princes in Amber: Ch. 9 Pt. 1
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chroniclingamberThe next few years pass as the first one did.
Rein comes to visit him more and more frequently which honestly is very, very suspicious and Corwin doesn’t question it because he is very aware that he is A Main Character. His siblings all occupy the same positions they had previously, including Random (and Vialle) in prison. Everything is unchanged except for one very important thing.
What is that thing?
Why, Corwin’s vision is returning, of course!
He has literally regrown literal eyeballs and also the ability to use them, at least a little bit. He can see a patch of light.
This is a big thing.
This is huge.
This is potentially deadly if anyone finds out.
The anniversary of the coronation is coming up.
Corwin suddenly has a deadline to escape – and escape is now a real, albeit distant, possibility.
He comes up with a ridiculous, desperate, “would only work in fiction” plan involving digging his way out (through a very thick door) with a spoon and then beating people up. He’s pretty emaciated, though. How emaciated? He grabs his bicep – his upper arm – and his fingertips touch.
Now, granted, my fingers are both short and fat but when I hold my hand in such a way that my thumb and middle finger meet, like they’re wrapped around something, that’s like… a bone. He would be some skin stretched over a bone. My child has long slender fingers and I asked her to act like she was holding something and that’s a larger area but… it’s not big! It’s not a big arm! That’s not much muscle! That’s scary, in fact! It is delusional to think he can beat some guys up. It’s delusional to think he can beat ONE guy up. He mentioned earlier that he sometimes gets dizzy if he stands up too quickly. And he plans on killing some trained, healthy, armed guards, running off to the Pattern, and walking it? Which he could barely do in Rebma when he was just about at the peak of health?
Desperation, man!
And the worst part is that he KNOWS this is a bad plan that won’t work but it’s all that he has. This HAS to work because the alternative is, what, getting blinded anew every year? Death? Which would be worse, an unending cycle of agony and solitude and starvation and the slow hope of healing and then pain again? Or just being dead? Hard to say! Both suck, actually.
And the whole “then I’ll come back and take my throne because I’m the actualfacts rightful king because I crowned myself” thing? Dude, come ON. Get real. This is how a CHILD thinks. This is how someone who is not rational thinks.
I’m telling you, absolute desperation.
Luckily he has an encounter with a magical madman and that changes everything.
References:
Rein comes to visit him more and more frequently which honestly is very, very suspicious and Corwin doesn’t question it because he is very aware that he is A Main Character. His siblings all occupy the same positions they had previously, including Random (and Vialle) in prison. Everything is unchanged except for one very important thing.
What is that thing?
Why, Corwin’s vision is returning, of course!
He has literally regrown literal eyeballs and also the ability to use them, at least a little bit. He can see a patch of light.
This is a big thing.
This is huge.
This is potentially deadly if anyone finds out.
The anniversary of the coronation is coming up.
Corwin suddenly has a deadline to escape – and escape is now a real, albeit distant, possibility.
He comes up with a ridiculous, desperate, “would only work in fiction” plan involving digging his way out (through a very thick door) with a spoon and then beating people up. He’s pretty emaciated, though. How emaciated? He grabs his bicep – his upper arm – and his fingertips touch.
Now, granted, my fingers are both short and fat but when I hold my hand in such a way that my thumb and middle finger meet, like they’re wrapped around something, that’s like… a bone. He would be some skin stretched over a bone. My child has long slender fingers and I asked her to act like she was holding something and that’s a larger area but… it’s not big! It’s not a big arm! That’s not much muscle! That’s scary, in fact! It is delusional to think he can beat some guys up. It’s delusional to think he can beat ONE guy up. He mentioned earlier that he sometimes gets dizzy if he stands up too quickly. And he plans on killing some trained, healthy, armed guards, running off to the Pattern, and walking it? Which he could barely do in Rebma when he was just about at the peak of health?
Desperation, man!
And the worst part is that he KNOWS this is a bad plan that won’t work but it’s all that he has. This HAS to work because the alternative is, what, getting blinded anew every year? Death? Which would be worse, an unending cycle of agony and solitude and starvation and the slow hope of healing and then pain again? Or just being dead? Hard to say! Both suck, actually.
And the whole “then I’ll come back and take my throne because I’m the actualfacts rightful king because I crowned myself” thing? Dude, come ON. Get real. This is how a CHILD thinks. This is how someone who is not rational thinks.
I’m telling you, absolute desperation.
Luckily he has an encounter with a magical madman and that changes everything.
References:
- Napoleon is a reference to Napoleon Bonaparte. As established previously, Corwin took part in his disastrous Russia Campaign.
- General MacArthur is Douglas MacArthur, famed top commander of the US Army in WWII and the Korean War.
