>It goes rather beyond having a crush. Tabris abandons even the
>pretense of neutrality expected of his Choir and, in essence,
>shatters his own soul
>as part of his determined efforts throughout the Third Symphony to
>make sure that Jon and Rei sort out their baggage, realize their
>potential, and eventually, well, save the world. Rei, who had known
>him longer, tacitly assumed that this was at least partly out of some
>hopeless, misguided devotion to her. As it turns out, she was half
>right.

Ok, I'll take your word for it, because you're smart about stuff like this. But I *totally* missed that, on multiple re-reads. I mean, I got that Tabris<1> was broken because he was helping the humans, but I thought it was more Humanity in general, and not specifically Jon and Rei. *shrug*

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-Pasha
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<1> Totally aside, my fingers have the hardest time typing 'Tabris' and not 'Travis'. It takes me two or three tries every time.