The Trouble With Fridge Logic

[Ireth]

The solutions are getting rather thin...

1. Hope. There is always hope. Otherways they'd just lay down and die. The idea of reaching Finvarra and swearing to him could give hope, perhaps?

2. They could try to swear fealty to Finvarra and have him refuse it, let him order their duel to end the whole thing.

1. That's true. But as long as the Hawks don't know they have Meabh with them, their hope for the possibility of the Fae switching loyalties will be minimized, and that's the problem I meant.

2. Finvarra is supposed to be a reasonable authority figure, in contrast to Madoc's utter unwillingness to be reasoned with (as shown with poor Ariel in Winter's Queen). Even if he refused their fealty, it would be out of character for him to do something so callous as ordering a duel to the death if there was an alternative option. He'd probably just settle for imprisoning them again, but with much tighter security.

 

[Graylorne]

It seems there are too many obstacles. Say, Ariel discovers the girl with them is really Meabh. Slip of the tongue, whatever. That would give her and Vincent hope. Vincent and Loegaire take her, geas-driven, in custody but refuse to give her up to Madoc.

Or some other obstacle could be changed. Now it looks a bit like maze without an exit...

 

[Ireth]

It seems there are too many obstacles. Say, Ariel discovers the girl with them is really Meabh. Slip of the tongue, whatever. That would give her and Vincent hope. Vincent and Loegaire take her, geas-driven, in custody but refuse to give her up to Madoc.

Or some other obstacle could be changed. Now it looks a bit like maze without an exit...

It really does, doesn't it... :/

I've been thinking Loegaire might accidentally discover who Meabh is when her Glamour fails a bit, but he might still keep it from the Hawks for safety's sake -- logic being that the less people keeping a secret, the less likely it'll be exposed by a slip of the tongue. That would give the two of them the opportunity to plan their duel, probably while traveling rather than resting. The Kings can't conceivably scry on them every minute of every day, especially if they're traveling too. They need to be still in order to scry properly, and that'd be nigh impossible on horseback.

 

[Graylorne]

It really does, doesn't it... :/

I've been thinking Loegaire might accidentally discover who Meabh is when her Glamour fails a bit, but he might still keep it from the Hawks for safety's sake -- logic being that the less people keeping a secret, the less likely it'll be exposed by a slip of the tongue. That would give the two of them the opportunity to plan their duel, probably while traveling rather than resting. The Kings can't conceivably scry on them every minute of every day, especially if they're traveling too. They need to be still in order to scry properly, and that'd be nigh impossible on horseback.

That would work. It certainly would make things easier.