South, to Augusta!

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Appointment with the allergist, sigh. I've managed to avoid this for, oh, eighteen or nineteen years -- since we moved to Maine and all the trees in the state decided to try to assassinate me. This year...I dunno...maybe I'm just tired of it. So, we'll go find out what I'm allergic to. Fingers crossed that it's not cat dander.

In the course of excavating my office from the Rubble of Writing(tm), I find that I have...too many stones. Yes, I'm one of those intensely annoying people who pick up stones and rocks -- beach stones, lake stones, woods stones, side of the road stones... I display them among the other bric-a-brac, but -- I've hit critical mass, and I can't choose which ones to get rid of. These aren't, you understand, Just Stones; these are 'Way Cool Stones that I Found Myself. Sigh. I'm guessing the best thing to do is just gather up all of them (even the ones with the teensy crystals? even the ones that had iron veins, which rusted out, leaving a Really Interesting Shape?) and put them outside. They're stones, for heaven's sake.

Um... Maybe tomorrow.

Yesterday, Steve and I recovered the living room, got all of the boxes unpacked and books reshelved. I found the Mencken Table, and hey -- we have a floor in the living room, too! Amazing.

I have now finished reading both Local Custom and Scout's Progress and can therefore commence Staring Balefully at Nothing. Or I would, except my backbrain has helpfully provided the idea for one of stories for the Yule chapbook. You guys are gonna like this one...

I'm outta here.

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Contract marriage versus longer term arrangement, or even lifemating....

Hmm. Korval seems to have something of a schizophrenic attitude towards lifemating. I'm not recalling e.g. clan names, however, there are clans appalled and offending by lifemating for reasons that include:
o lifemating = wizard bonds, wizards, anathema!
o one of the clans involved if there are two clans involved loses a clan member permanently, including the earnings potential of that clan member, even when reimbursed
o it goes against proper social rule and custom, for a permanent pair-bonding of sexual and romance sort, as opposed to an arrangement of bed-friends (relating to Fledging, Win Ton's offer of staying in contact to Theo, was not one of a necessarily bed friend nature, but also wasn't one that was excluding it). (Daav seems to have have a continuing relationship over time with another Scout; I kept wondering how it was that that had never gotten a clan-to-clan agreement for offspring, given that at least Korval was severely deficient in numbers and in heirs, and that they were both pilots--especially since the next generation, Pat Rin, Shan, Anthora, and Nova also? had all entered contract marriages to each provide at least one heir to Korval, despite Shan, Anthoras, and Pat Rin all turning out to have lifemates.)

Getting back to Korval attitudes though, Er Thom's mother had indulged her older son not requiring him to contract-wed to provide an heir, and she and Chi yos'Phelium were the twin products of a severely disapproved-of-by-the-Delm/Clan lifemating between a yos'Galan and a yos'Phelium. Daav more than acceded to Er Thom you'Galan and Anne Davis pairbonding over the objections of the yos'Galan head of line, but was adamant about requiring Shan to remain in Clan Korval's direct custody and not depart Liad with his parents.

Then again, one of the founders of Korval, Cantra, was not pleased to find Jela had permanently tied him to her and her to him.