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I would think so.  I mean, nothing we've seen so far has implied that it would be stopped becauses there isn't light.  Heck, I bet you could put breaths into a candle and make it almost like a lightbulb.  *thinks*  A glowing lifeless... that would be cool!

Yeah!  I mean, I'd probibly read it either way, but knowing that it's not something that I have to start trying to understand now makes things a little bit easier.    Me liked the first bit, and I really hope you'll post the second part before too long... of course, finish MB3 first... since I need to get those too.

Well, I think the genral opinion is that he's related to one of our other groups somehow... so your Jewels comment doesn't sound as crazy as would be thought.  Maybe his mystry girl is the one that Vasher killed, and Nightblood was trying to brag to but refused to hear that she had been killed?

What really struck me was was Vasher's reaction to Vivenna's mention of Clod.  It looks like Clod was someone important to him, and I would be willing be willing to bet that Jewels is a Drab because she used her breath to Awaken him. 

I think she actually yells at Viveena at one point that she gave up her breaths to the God King himself, and considers it an honor, and that's why she's a drab.  (I can't think of which chapter).

I don't think Vasher is currently a priest because of running with Denth and everyone, however I could see him as having been one (maybe to the Goddess that Lightsong loved so much before she died?), and then when Denth and everyone found out they became extreamly buddy-buddy with him to find out all they could.  When he found out about this, he dropped them like a ton of bricks... that's just an idea that came to me and I thought I'd throw out.

Actually, I thought about the king being involved before, but couldn't come up with good enough examples from the text to meantion it, so I let it lie... now that others are bring it up, it doesn't make me feel as crazy.

I personally think that Vivenna was too passive when she first saw Vasher.  I mean, if I were in her situation, having been treated as badly as I did the first time I was with him, my first reaction would be to cower in the corner, or else yell at him... and most definatly not trust him.  I would be like "why are you being so nice after last time?" and force him to explain last time...  The fact that she's basically ignoring that bugs me.

Great chapter!!!  I was laughing the entire way through... and now I can't wait to see what Lightsong will do, both with the commands, as well as his petition's.  He always felt guilty for not helping, so maybe he'll stop his guilt by doing what Allmother did... I would love to see how he would be both good and bad at helping at the same time... maybe giving suggestions that at the time of suggesting them sound completely insane, but turn out really good (a guy with a stutter comes asking for it to be cured, and Lightsong tells him to tell stories, and in the end the guy ends up doing Opera singing because when he sings he looses his stutter type thing).

I've always wondered why Viveena didn't try to get in touch with her sister.  I mean, she goes to see the talks (and check on Siri) and then after that she just... drops it.  If her main point was to get her sister out of there, and take her place (which it was at the beginning) then she hasn't done much in way of getting that done.  I'm wondering if maybe she did try to send something out, but it was intercepted or something.  I mean, I would love to see it be handled as a "Denth, will you see this gets to my sister?" and he never send them.  It's logical, and simple to understand, but you never actually see until the end when her and Siri talk and she's all like "Didn't you get my messages?!"  But that's my thought...

I have to agree with dreamking47 about how the chapter felt a bit too cliche.  I was actually considering posting something myself along the same lines of what was said.

I actually am rather glad that Vashar was the one to pick up Vivenna rather than Denth, because I feel he's a little bit safer.  He's got something in mind, works for himself, and... just feels... safer.  At this point Denth is kind of a wild-card that we can't be sure if he'd kill Vivenna or keep her alive, or what would happen.  However, I am slightly worried about something that was commented.  I think he could be good for Vivenna if she were to fall for him, however at this point if something were to happen, it would be way rushed, and I while I do believe that you can fall in love quickly, something like that type of love would need to be well explained.  Why would she actually allow herself to be with someone who she's just seen kill?  Wouldn't she hate the fact that she was in love with him?  Why is it that she does have feeling for him, and yet she's never displayed intrests before?  (My thought for that one is she's never let her self dream since she knew she would be married to the God-King, but now she knows she won't be with him, so thus she's free and yet she still hasn't considered dating other people...)  I think more that I would like to see them by the end of the book have a tenitive friendship, or if she does get feelings for him, have them be a graditude to the person who saves her which she's confusing for love.

As to the learning, I agree with everyone that monks would make more sense for teach.  It would also slightly explain why Siri payed so little attention, since she doesn't seem to care that much for religion.  Also, to me Siri seems more like the type of person where if she wanted to learn about something, she'd study it as much as she could and become best friends with that tutors, and just ignore the other ones (case and point: getting the history.  She decided she wanted to know about it so she did everything in her power.)  And since she seems to have enjoyed the "extravagent" things (her love for flowers at the beginning), she would be intrested in BioChroma, and most likely talk to people visiting from Halledren since they would be intresting to her.  Yet I feel like she only went to classes when she absolutly had to.  Maybe that's just me...

I kind of agree with the comments about BioChroma, mostly because it doesn't fit the magic system.  Usually when you're naming something, you either give it a name that explains what it does or how to use it (breaths make sense here) or else after the person who discovered it.  Maybe Color-Soul or Bright-breaths, or something may make more sense (and actually the comment about soul would make sense as to why the drian seem to think that using breaths or losing all of your breaths is like losing part of your soul, which also hasn't made full sense as to why they would think that.)

In regards to the way that Subron is going to lose his breaths, I think that by this point Siri would have started to do research into that herself.  See if any of the Iredecent Tones died shortly before the god-king, or even try to find out more about breaths (maybe using wanting to understand her own, or something as an excuse) so that she could try to put a set of actions ready to prevent that, so she could use her excaping the city as a backup plan.  Right now she seems way too focused on that, and less on preventing the need to do so, yet she's always hoping she doesn't have to.

Anywho, that's my thoughts...