Ancalagon - 47. Chapter 47

Is it wrong to want Bouncer to eat these f*ckers. Something seems strange about this group.

What does a broken bond entail, Kardoval-person? Garjah and Essell's bond is behaving differently? Lots of new questions.

This meeting seems to be flying everywhere and anywhere at any given time. Surely someone has an agenda for the topics of discussion, instead of talking about different subjects with reckless abandon. 

Another great chapter, Cia!!

This chapter had a foreboding feel to it.  I'm worried about their future.

Do be careful Essell, don't become their new experiment. 

From the build-up prior to meeting the Kardoval to the present at the dinner table, they seem to be a group of underwhelming entities. They seem to lack a basic cohesiveness or unity of purpose, their scattered approach to this meeting considering the following comment:

“Essell, we appreciate that you are here to speak with us, and we wish to know more about you personally and find out more about humans. Things are… changing. This is a sign.” Mereval indicated him and Garjah.

Equally disturbing are the following comments as well:

“He does mirror Essell’s emotions,” Garjah confirmed.

“You do as well,” Mereval said. She looked disturbed, tapping the table.

“What?” I frowned.

“You get upset, he gets upset. You relax, he relaxes. It’s a complication.”

“Isn’t that the nature of the bond?” I asked.

“No, not like this. Timok warned us to keep our distance, but we thought that was the result of an incomplete bond. You have bonded, but this mirroring between you two is unknown.”  

 For an advanced, interstellar species one would think they might have been a bit better prepared for this meeting.

32 minutes ago, drpaladin said:

There is a caveat of them being insular and any way you look at this it's a limiting factor. Add into it this group is basically omnipotent and used to being unquestioned. Why put in any extra work?

Well, it that were the case...it's a hell of a way to run an interstellar empire...is there a comparison to be made to the last days of the Roman Empire???

What an intriguing development! It's like a combination of the bond between two Four Arms and the emotional mirroring between pack members and their alpha. Essell has somehow become the emotional crux of two distinct bond types.

I'm reminded of what we were told earlier of the strangeness of 6888 Ardra. Essell's suit was compromised and he'd already bonded with Bouncer when Garjah hunted him down. Didn't someone lend importance to Essell having been touching the bare earth? Perhaps his human physiology allowed for a heretofore unknown reaction.

Knowing Essell, I just hope this revelation doesn't lead him to question the purity of the love he shares with Garjah. I'll never forgive them if the Kardoval plant the seed of bitterness that irreparably damages their feelings for one another.

20 hours ago, astone2292 said:

What does a broken bond entail, Kardoval-person? Garjah and Essell's bond is behaving differently? Lots of new questions.

This meeting seems to be flying everywhere and anywhere at any given time. Surely someone has an agenda for the topics of discussion, instead of talking about different subjects with reckless abandon. 

Another great chapter, Cia!!

Hmmm 🤔, bonded not only with a human, the Human Essell, a human male that has a mother type bonding with the Cerops, Bouncer, a protective and traditionally aggressive creature that also shares his bonding with the more masculine Garjah. Now how again,  gathering-o-vals, do you expect this bond to suddenly revert to your traditional vision of a normal bond?

The fact that the gathering-o-vals, has seemingly discussed this bond and now the repercussions of breaking such bond gives reason for great concern; a concern that perhaps the “un-trainable cerops” may sense to give the magnified  paranoia to Essell, and the lack of tolerance by Garjah, as these emotions are the protection I would expect the cerops child to alert on; and that is maybe the most clear thought of the meeting for this special family unit.

20 hours ago, drpaladin said:

I fear Garjah mirroring Essell's moods doesn't bode well for his current position. He can't do his work with this handicap.

The last question devolves from rhetorical to plain stupid. Of course no one has told Essell much of anything.

19 hours ago, CincyKris said:

This chapter had a foreboding feel to it.  I'm worried about their future.

21 hours ago, DJSMITH74 said:

Is it wrong to want Bouncer to eat these f*ckers. Something seems strange about this group.

Handicap or defensive posturing via bond? This gathering has the curiosity to make it seem innocent, yet they quickly talk of the broadcasting emotions of Essell. Ironically, their on judging arrogance seems to be feeding Bouncer’s discomfort and minimal tolerance beyond the close circle of his family. Bouncer’s “reading of them” may be bond transmitted in the paranoia and intrusive judgment and superficial tolerance.

21 hours ago, DJSMITH74 said:

Is it wrong to want Bouncer to eat these f*ckers. Something seems strange about this group.

Given the collective feelings and comments within this commitment block, I’m thinking this notion to feed Bouncer the Gathering-O-Vals, may ultimately be the Garjah family’s judgement in response to the non-sense that may be found around the corner.