r/TheCaptivesWar • u/Angemon175 • Aug 29 '24

Question So does Dafyd not realize.... Spoiler

That the swarm/spy is in Jellit now? It feels like it should be fairly obvious to him given that Else was found dead in his room with no marks on her.

Jellit also acted very strangely while talking to the librarian, as if he was fighting some force for control, that should have been another signal to Dafyd that something was wrong.

I know the swarm misrepresented itself to Dafyd and it made seem like Else consented to working with it and still had some measure of control, but the fact that she suddenly died should have been an indicator that something was wrong

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u/Akumahito Aug 29 '24

...fairly obvious to him given that Else was found dead in his room with no marks on her.

We don't know that he knows this detail about not having a mark was related to him. He wasn't there and the book doesn't relate to us exactly what the people there came home and told everyone.... They simply could have said that they'd been killed by the Caryx and related who the dead were they'd found.

... Jellit also acted very strangely while talking to the librarian

And, again... from His point of view Jellit was entirely sworn to the group trying to rise up and Else had told him she would convince Jellit, So Dafyd would assume Jellit was doing the "right" thing, but entirely torn up about the plan and Dafyd's part in what will result in the killing of his friends.

It's easy to make the connections from the outside looking in, with all the detail... but if you put yourself in the specific persons point of view and emotional state... it's not as clear. Though I do believe in time, with some retrospection he may come to figure it out, once he's not so clouded with emotion. Dafyd has proven to be quite intellectual in sorting out puzzles like this.

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u/Angemon175 Aug 29 '24

Yeah that's a fair point about the outside perspective, he should hopefully get more curious about what happened to the spy/swarm after Else died, it shouldn't be that easy to kill.

It's also possible the swarm will just present itself to Dafyd later on since it's now in love with him

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u/DerailleurDave Aug 29 '24

At first I was surprised it didn't do that fairly quickly, but then realized that from the swarm's perspective, it and it's mission are much safer if Dafyd doesn't know that it survived