I think she wants us to find her and bring this thing - I take that from the "hell rides at your back part". Why else would she want us to come if hell was at our back? Hell being this thing? It may be that she is capable of wresting control of it away from its masters. The part about our arm is strange though. It doesn't sound good.I am soaring on the thermal currents that snake along the underside of the sky like veins, close to the stars and the top of the Mountain. From a bird’s-eye view I see a party of three, one golden, one red and one grey, scurrying along the grassy plains as though they are hunted and perhaps they are, for they speed up as I approach and desperately try to make their way toward the Lighthouse and down to the docks and thence to a ship and the open ocean and the promise of freedom but I swoop down and they cannot proceed further and must negotiate their way through me and the golden one with spectral wings and a crown of bone and eyes of molten gold speaks to me “Come find me, for Hell rides at your back” she says, and the arm that I bear which is not mine splinters and howls and is broken and I along with it.
Also, perhaps the extreme amplification of our link caused us to see something more than the eyeless one intended. Perhaps what happens to our arm in the vision is something she intends to do to us when if we go to her. And perhaps the fact that we saw her as a golden angel with a crown of bone was also more than she wanted us to see.“What did you see? Can you find them?”
I look at the Alia double and she smiles knowingly, raising a finger to her lips. I saw the eyeless one and her two companions. I know where they are. Whatever link we share was amplified a thousand fold by the Alia-thing’s mental assault, and the blind woman called out to me.
Yeah. Why were we the only one knocked out? Couldn't it knock them out too?How did you all avoid being knocked out by that thing?
You mean Vyck and Severian being knocked out by the release of the Druj?
Sure. I mean, does anything about her appearance in the vision coincide with any mythical figures or signs or anything else for that matter? The crown of bone for example was a weird detail.not sure I understand the question. It was the eyeless woman that ressed you back at the Mountain and that the Quaestor is chasing. You mean, if her appearance in the 'dream' sequence has some other significance?
I look at the Alia double and she smiles knowingly, raising a finger to her lips. I saw the eyeless one and her two companions. I know where they are. Whatever link we share was amplified a thousand fold by the Alia-thing’s mental assault, and the blind woman called out to me.
“With its help you can see them, can’t you? It can lead you to them. We can use it.”
Vyck curses loudly at this and almost lunges at him, his face a terrifying mask of rage.
“I thought you wanted to use to know what happened to the Optikos!”
“And so I do, so I do, but it has affected the pilgrim somehow, don’t you see? It would be foolish to waste this opportunity.”
2) Tell Severian a lie: that you had a vision that leads back to the stone idol in the Mirthwater, and that you’ll be able to use the Alia-thing’s assistance to help you locate them from there. He seems already convinced of the last part.
Haha. If that were the case then wouldn't we become Kurze if 2 goes well? Complete with our own Alia. Sounds pretty awesome to me. We could probably use our druj to rally the little goblinoids behind us the way he did and take up residence in the Duskhold ruins. Full circle and all that.But it is an interesting observation none the less: the Mirthwater Optikos also went silent. I wonder if the circumstances were similar. Also, did they bind a Druj too? Was it then captured by Kurze and held in Duskhold?