question, and what I'm up to
Mar. 14th, 2022 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asakiyumeThe ninja girl has a question about Patricia Wrede's Enchanted Forest series. I read some books in the series and enjoyed them, but I have a notoriously bad memory, and I didn't read all of them, so I'm putting the question to you.
The magician character [quick Google search... ], Mendanbar: the ninja girl remembers an occasion where he (or possibly someone else??) creates a duplicate person/doppelgänger of someone, using magic. Does anyone remember such a thing? And if so, can you situate that plot piece? Also, what was the double called?
What I'm up to is I found a way to volunteer my skills (such as they are) for Ukraine. I don't know that it makes much difference at all, except for this: I get to work directly with people in Ukraine, and I feel like having sympathetic strangers step up and be a presence is something-not-nothing. If I was about to die and someone sat down next to me and smiled, that would be better than facing it alone. I do the volunteering in the morning hours, Kyiv time, which is the wee hours, my time, so I'm on a kind of sleep-deprivation high.
The magician character [quick Google search... ], Mendanbar: the ninja girl remembers an occasion where he (or possibly someone else??) creates a duplicate person/doppelgänger of someone, using magic. Does anyone remember such a thing? And if so, can you situate that plot piece? Also, what was the double called?
What I'm up to is I found a way to volunteer my skills (such as they are) for Ukraine. I don't know that it makes much difference at all, except for this: I get to work directly with people in Ukraine, and I feel like having sympathetic strangers step up and be a presence is something-not-nothing. If I was about to die and someone sat down next to me and smiled, that would be better than facing it alone. I do the volunteering in the morning hours, Kyiv time, which is the wee hours, my time, so I'm on a kind of sleep-deprivation high.
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Date: 2022-03-14 07:28 pm (UTC)Which I read first, in its original stand-alone publication, and was really confused by the revised reissue ten years later.