I always thought that Tom zapping Lenamare is a given. It was bound to happen. Sigh! It seems I was wrong. It would been fun.

I agree with JMBT, Lenamare should be placed where he belongs. No one should have such big ego. If Tom is not able to Zap him, atleast Tom could implant command to Lenamare's brain to hit himself. It might not be as satisfying but it would be funny. But then, Tizzy seems able to do just that. Freaky.

It would be sad when it is time for Tom to 'talk' to Rupert. I was also wondering what would happen after. It would be heartbreaking I guess.

I will(dam you tizzy) admit that Lenamare is an exceedingly skilled wizard and much to my chagrin, that he is a smart man. However, even though he has given Exador a painful headache, Lenamare has had the fortune of Exador restraining his abilities in order to fit in. I mean Exador can't pull out all the demon moves he otherwise could have employed or else his human facade would crumble.

Lenamare is strong for a human, but that's just it...he's only a man, a smart and lucky one perhaps, but i think that should Exador pull his full power to bear then Lenamare will ,of course, bend over for you tizzy. =)

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Oh! That is what happens in the second book. Lenamare gathering up his gang. I think you might be giving too much spoilers.

Well, may I ask a question? Will Edwyrd work with Lenamare on this? It seems to in the first book. It might be good though.

And there is Talarius who might have become indentured to Tom. Would Tom use the knight to fight his enemies?

And yes I'm fishing for spoilers. LOL.

I think Lenamare does know Edwyrd exist. The 'leave it to your bettere' debacle while they were having a meal together should make the name Edwyrd stick to Lenamare's mind.

As for Talarius. Sigh. He might had just become an ornament in the next book I think. He has nothing to do in the abyss lacking the necessary method to be able to travel practically in the abyss.

By the way. Tom pretending to be Edwyrd is a very powerful animage, as it appear to Maelen, wouldn't that attract other animages attention? Powerful people never escape the spotlight really. In Edwyrd's case, it seems that Maelen is gossiping about it with other wizzards and animages drawing attention to Edwyrd. That would mean that other powerful animages might appear and take Edwyrds measure. That might also attract some junior animages who wants to be tutored by skilled animages, which Edwyrd seems to be.

Well for Lenamare, there is "notice" and "officially notice" Obviously he knows about Edwyrd, but he doesn't factor into the wizard's worldview/calculations...yet, except as an annoyance.

Just like he knows about his students, he might even subconsciously know all their names (not that he'd admit it) but they are pawns/tools.

Remember, it's also about putting people in their place, it's a management style. If you pretend they don't really exist, it keeps them in their place.

The Rod Members haven't actually met Edwyrd. They just know of him, as reported by the ship. They are going to be discussing him quite a bit in book 2.

As for Talarius...I wouldn't count him out yet. For the time being, he is an unwilling member of Tom's Entourage...but there are a lot of people in the Abyss who are going to be very curious about him and perhaps acquire him for themselves. And while he himself bemoans being "defenseless" no sane or rational person would actually consider him defenseless at the moment. He's just less offensive...

I will also note, that Animages are a secretive lot, so the fact that a powerful animage has managed to stay out of sight for his entire career is not a huge shocker. The Society tries to hold them together, but it's not all encompassing and there are other animage groups around, particularly on other continents.

In other words, they probably won't be that suspicious of him just suddenly popping up so powerful. The default assumption is going to be that he's a hell of a lot older than he looks, that he knows a hell of a lot more than he's letting on, and his secrecy is pretty understandable.

Exactly. He's not a complete wallflower!

Yep...he's screwed...eventually.

It actually depends on the nature of the magic item and how it works. This varies a bit more with religious artifacts than with wizard artifacts.

Well, Tom would of course defend him, because he's Tom's treasure.

If you win a prize at a carnival and later someone comes and tries to take it from you, wouldn't you defend it?

I am sure Tom will want to keep his toy to play with. I certainly would.

So, yes, there are going to be lots of people that want Talarius, for a wide variety of reasons. However, there are also going to be a lot of people (demons) interested in Tom and what he seems to know how to do.

He's going to get a LOT of unwanted attention.

Aloneness does have benefits....however some people really hate it...apparently

And this is weird...I just read about this study done at this university where they put people in room with a chair and an electrical device that would administer a very painful shock.

They were told they had to sit in the chair (staying still, not fidgeting) and simply reflect on their recent experiences or if they got bored, they could administer a shock to themselves.

Turns out that 67% of the human males, 12 of 18, gave themselves at least one shock during this period.

Whereas only 25% of woman were this crazy.

And people wonder why there is a waiting line to get in the Abyss to be tortured....

Which brings up a point I mentioned a while back.

Humans are just really fragile, too easy to break. They wear out too fast. Plus they start blubbering "my arm, my arm, you ripped off my arm!!!!" Sheesh, cry baby!

Thus demons are much better lovers, across the board.