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Marco's answer is ambiguous: I would go on. Does it mean living his own life, freezing himself of the curse of searching for a new C, another C. ?

I've been rethinking this. Maybe I am a bit dim. Doesn't this thing, about C now having made a free choice - by returning to Penmere after a day away -, only work of we assume that in previous lives he never left it? If, on the contrary, yet he did - we have no real information - why were his previous returns not a free choice?

Yes. Or: no? For it always has been my impression that Marco never died, but was forced, after C died - as he always did - to start looking for a reborn C, always ending up in the world around the Tor. Now it seems they can both die. Doesn't that change the entire dynamic? - as well as the way we have been told (to understand) the story?

The ball seems a definite turning point - but we're cleverly left in the dark where the turn will take us.

Given what we now know... It seems that M is the catalyst. So ...if C, after (inevitably) dying in his present life, is reborn again, as it seems he must, but does not meet "his" Marco, his memories might not be triggered....

This is awesome. But those two lines, somewhere hslfwayyvthr chapter: "they were not frightened yet. That would come." Very ominous, very real, very necessary in this tale. In any tale about people who get to know one another. Once you have something to loose, there is fear.

In contrast to do many GA stories that take an entire chapter to spell out sexual intercourse in boring detail, here it is told in a few lines that are far more evocative. Well done.

An emotional disaster is waiting...

It is an eternal question: even if one is not burdened with as many pasts as Christopher separating oneself from one's childhood place is painful. In real life, to sound out a new life elsewhere and then being disappointed, even disoriented is normal. But returning after one day only never can be even the beginning of a solution.... However, for the sake of this story I accept C's decision - for now....😔

An inevitably night/day that changes a lot in both of them, or, rather: heralds a slow change in both of them. Hard to foresee how they'll really accommodate each other, and themselves...

Patronages never was and never will be entirely altruïstic - it's the way of the world. But it is the way great things have been created over the past millennia...

As I suggested before, given the information we now have leaving Penmere as well as Marco seems Cristopher's only way out, an escape from the millennial, constant link to the Tor, i.e. a life of being reborn in Penmere, of finding Marco there, and of once more living with the memories that will inevitably return because they are bound to the place and the person. What kind of life leaving the present C will have is uncertain. He will certainly die. Whether, away from P and M, he will be reborn with a or any memories of his past lives remains to be seen. It is up to the author if another, as yet not foreseeable solution will present itself.

Well, this certainly was a script worthy of a telenovela ...

Will this story ever be finished?

Promising...