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White Hallows by Melannen (PG)
Fandom: EARTHSEA
Pairing: Ged/Serret
Length: ~1000 words
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melannen, necreavit
Author Website: On Skyehawke, Yuletide
Why this must be read:
In A Wizard of Earthsea, Serret, daughter of the Lord of Re Albi on Gont & a sorceress from the northerly island of Osskil, tempts the young Ged into trying dark magic, and is thus one cause of the release of his shadow. Later in the book, married to a man three times her age at the Court of the Terrenon on Osskil, she helps her husband in his attempts to enslave Ged to an ancient evil spirit, one of the Old Powers that Tenar/Arha serves on Atuan. Her father, the Lord of Re Albi, also appears in Tehanu, where he proves to be a follower of the cult of the necromancer whom Ged defeated in The Farthest Shore.
'White Hallows' tells the story of Ged's first encounter with Serret on Gont, and its repercussions, from Serret's point of view. Melannen cleverly weaves threads from A Wizard of Earthsea & Tehanu to give a complex & highly plausible view of the dysfunctional Re Albi family, which challenges the portrayal in the original trilogy of women's magic as being weaker than men's magic. A memorable story with some gorgeous word pictures, 'White Hallows' repays rereading.
And the Lord's daughter locked herself in her chamber, chilled and screaming in her bones, feeling the tearing in the bindings she had woven through him. And when that had passed, and all the doors were shut again, she combed her hair until it shone like the sea at night, and put on her best gown of fine white Gontish fleecefell, and marched into her mother's sitting room, feeling very cross.
"You used me," she said wrathfully. "You tricked me. I could have made him mine forever, but you put your own spells on him through me, didn't you? And you didn't have the patience for the subtlety you taught me, and now the Mage is watching, and neither of us shall have him."
"I did it," her mother said, through heavy-lidded eyes, her words feathered from her childhood on Osskill, "I did it because you needed to be taught a lesson about reaching beyond your place. And because I could."
White Hallows by Melannen
Pairing: Ged/Serret
Length: ~1000 words
Author on LJ:
melannen, necreavitAuthor Website: On Skyehawke, Yuletide
Why this must be read:
In A Wizard of Earthsea, Serret, daughter of the Lord of Re Albi on Gont & a sorceress from the northerly island of Osskil, tempts the young Ged into trying dark magic, and is thus one cause of the release of his shadow. Later in the book, married to a man three times her age at the Court of the Terrenon on Osskil, she helps her husband in his attempts to enslave Ged to an ancient evil spirit, one of the Old Powers that Tenar/Arha serves on Atuan. Her father, the Lord of Re Albi, also appears in Tehanu, where he proves to be a follower of the cult of the necromancer whom Ged defeated in The Farthest Shore.
'White Hallows' tells the story of Ged's first encounter with Serret on Gont, and its repercussions, from Serret's point of view. Melannen cleverly weaves threads from A Wizard of Earthsea & Tehanu to give a complex & highly plausible view of the dysfunctional Re Albi family, which challenges the portrayal in the original trilogy of women's magic as being weaker than men's magic. A memorable story with some gorgeous word pictures, 'White Hallows' repays rereading.
And the Lord's daughter locked herself in her chamber, chilled and screaming in her bones, feeling the tearing in the bindings she had woven through him. And when that had passed, and all the doors were shut again, she combed her hair until it shone like the sea at night, and put on her best gown of fine white Gontish fleecefell, and marched into her mother's sitting room, feeling very cross.
"You used me," she said wrathfully. "You tricked me. I could have made him mine forever, but you put your own spells on him through me, didn't you? And you didn't have the patience for the subtlety you taught me, and now the Mage is watching, and neither of us shall have him."
"I did it," her mother said, through heavy-lidded eyes, her words feathered from her childhood on Osskill, "I did it because you needed to be taught a lesson about reaching beyond your place. And because I could."
White Hallows by Melannen