I just have a question. In chapter 7 of The Tower of Sorcery we have Tarrin just arriving at the Tower and taking his first bath in the bathing pool:
... and then he goes on to play in the baths with Dar"I'm not human, Mistress Elsa," he reminded her gently. "My idea of modesty isn't the same as yours."
"Point taken," she acceded. "Is there anything else I should know? Anything special you'll need?"
"No," he replied. "I don't need anything special, ma'am. My blood is dangerous to humans, but let me be the one to worry about that problem."
Dar answered that by splashing water at him. Tarrin retaliated by snaking his long tail around the boy's ankle, and then yanking. Tarrin's tail was by no means as stong as the rest of his body, but it was strong enough. Dar disappeared under the water with shocking speed, and then came up spluttering. "Cheater," he accused after spitting out a mouthful of water.
"Oh, did my tail catch on your leg? I'm so sorry," Tarrin said with false sincerity. "Let me help you up."
In chapter 1 of Weavespinner, after Tarrin has been turned human, he and Kimmie take a bath and Triana storms in, PISSED.
"That's not what I mean!" she snapped, which made Kimmie flinch. "Foolish cub, you're a Were-cat! You just got in a pool with a human, and you unloaded the trees know how much spit into that water! Thank the furies it's a big enough pool!"
Kimmie suddenly paled, looking at Triana in sincere chagrin. "I never even considered--I'm sorry!" she said quickly. "I won't do it again, I promise!"
"I don't understand, mother," Tarrin said.
"She could have infected you," she told him gruffly. "Spit can do it, and it only takes a drop of it in your eyes or going up your nose with the rest of the water. The pool is big enough to where it diluted it down to the point where it was harmless. If that had been a smaller pool, though, you may have been turned again. Not that I wouldn't have been happy to see it, but we're going to play this by Dolanna's rules for now. That means we keep you human so that mad Wizard has a chance to find a cure for your amnesia. Don't get back in that pool until I have a chance to purge it, Tarrin. Now dry off and get dressed, both of you."
My question is, why didn't Tarrin show this kind of caution when playing in the baths with Dar? Should he even have been bathing with the other humans at ALL in the tower?
MD
