>Well, more that I hadn't really considered the question of
>whether the reader should be surprised, and I'm kind of annoyed with
>myself for overlooking it. I guess it does work, although for the
>sake of people who read the series after the fact and may not read the
>old discussion threads about it, I should probably backfill some
>mention of her time spent considering the matter later on. I can
>think of a decent place to do that in the outline I have in my head
>for act VI, though, so that works.
>

Since the mention of Remilia doing her pondering while ostensibly reading her father's journals came up I've had this half formed notion of her commenting "really now, you've seen me reading regularly, and even at a leisurely pace did you truly think it would take me that long to work through father's journals?"

>Given that her close reading of parts of Shakespeare is one of the
>only clear memories she has of all the reading she did during her
>confinement, I fully expect her to call someone or something a
>whoreson beetle-headed flap-eared knave at some point. :)
>

Whenever that occurs the look of utter bafflement on the recipient's and/or bystander's face will be golden. I could actually see it causing enough of a 'wait, what?' moment to be useful as a distraction in combat, at least the first time.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "This Space For Rent."