:D :D The Wounded Name is so admirably iddy. I see it as kind of practice for Flight of the Heron, which (delightful as TWN is) is IMO a much better book—Broster threw everything in here at the maximum tropey hurt/comfort level and then refined the same ideas and combined them with a more solid and sensible plot/character basis in FotH. But in the meantime it's all very good fun!