Studying For Midterms

okies. I read chapter 12. Yay! Okay, I think it's good. ^_^ There was one grammatical error somewheres, but I can't find it. When I say I can't, I mean I'm way to lazy to go back to the page and find it. ^_^;;;
But I was sligtly confused about the whole Half-Soul things with Advocates. And why exactly do they have to suffer? It didn't make a lot of sense to me. And how are advocates chosen? If the children are already on their own world thingy, why do they need advocates?



Anyway, I wish you the best of luck on your midterms (mwahaha You'll need it)

(Not really....I'm sorry!!! T_T)

A lot of what you said hasn't been touched yet, actually. But they suffer because, though Advocates aren't technically "Half-Souls," their souls aren't really...filled unless they're Advocate to a Child. Which is why I had that whole thing with Lanith thinking about Yahn's grief, and previously I mentioned that she seemed to die every day after Maerin's death. Now, however, she's talking about Maerin's life but is smiling because she's Advocate to someone.

It also explains why the nurses in the lower level of the requiem are so...empty. (Since being a lower level nurse is usually more punishment than anything else, none of them is an Advocate to a Child.)

Or if you meant "have to" as in *why* as opposed to *how*, that's also unknown (and in chapter 12 Lanith is all, "well, Tuli's the one who started this...so why did she make it that way?").

By "how" the Advocates are chosen, do you mean in the sense of how Children choose each individual Advocate (as opposed to the sense of the process, which I had Fenyar helpfully describe)? If you mean that, that hasn't been touched on yet.

This is a very difficult story to write. It has so much setting and world thingies that would suck just being explained flat out that often I have to force my readers to go back and at times reread the whole story before they have a complete grasp of it. This is also why I want to make TDH a webfic, so everyone can just come and ask me questions.

If anyone else out there is actually reading it, ask away. I don't mind answering.

*Warning: Thematic ideas discussed: if you want to figure out all the themes for yourself, don't read what I'm about to say*

Erm, just for clarification, it may not be necessarily the Advocacy which makes Advocates "filled." This is actually developing into one of the many running themes...as you can see, none of the Advocates really had a friend (except, perhaps, if Maerin and Yahn were friends, which will be answkered in chapter 13)...who's to say it isn't merely the fact someone accepts them that drives them to such fulfillment?

That's the sense I was trying to drive across in this chapter, with Lanith thinking it unfair that so few would find peace, and only if they were deemed "worthy" (aha! another theme ;) yes, I have this...weird philosophy that despite our personal liking or disliking of another person, all people are "worthy" of happiness/kindness (since I believe it's no one's right to judge the "worthiness" of another person), which I suppose is what spawned this). I tried to also convey that it *might* not *just* be the fact that they're Advocates to *Children* by saying, "She was not alone," at the end. Of course, this idea isn't completely developed yet, due to first of all my lack of clarity, and second of all, the circumstances in which I'm trying to convey it. But yeah.