Child of the Heart Darkover edition by Elisabeth Waters Literature Fiction eBooks
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The Oath of the Free s requires a Renunciate to send any son she bears away to be fostered, but what does giving up her child do to the mother - or to the son?
This story was originally published in the Darkover anthology FREE AMAZONS OF DARKOVER, Dec 1985.
Child of the Heart Darkover edition by Elisabeth Waters Literature Fiction eBooks
Jamilla has given birth to a boy who, by the rules of the Sisters of Renunciation, cannot live with her. She is still trying to deal with her deep depression when she and her oath-sister Perdita leave to escort a nine-year-old boy to a monastery where he will study.The boy is deeply bitter about what he considers his abandonment by his mother, who first sent him to live with his father in keeping with her Renunciate oath and then died in a rock slide. In his eyes the Renunciates are selfish, hypocritical and cruel.
On the trip he starts by refusing to speak to either oath-sister, but slowly he and Jamilla begin to heal each other's pain.
A story this short doesn't allow much room for character development, but
Waters does a good job and leaves the reader feeling satisfied.
The Darkover series was begun in 1960 by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley and has been continued since her death by a number of authors. It still has a slight
feel of 60's science fiction, but writers like Waters or Mercedes Lackey easily
overcome that. In this case, the feel is very slight. The one major drawback of sampling the series randomly in fairly recent short stories is the lack of a back story and a glossary of terms.
The brevity of this very short story avoids having this be an annoyance.
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Child of the Heart Darkover edition by Elisabeth Waters Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Jamilla has given birth to a boy who, by the rules of the Sisters of Renunciation, cannot live with her. She is still trying to deal with her deep depression when she and her oath-sister Perdita leave to escort a nine-year-old boy to a monastery where he will study.
The boy is deeply bitter about what he considers his abandonment by his mother, who first sent him to live with his father in keeping with her Renunciate oath and then died in a rock slide. In his eyes the Renunciates are selfish, hypocritical and cruel.
On the trip he starts by refusing to speak to either oath-sister, but slowly he and Jamilla begin to heal each other's pain.
A story this short doesn't allow much room for character development, but
Waters does a good job and leaves the reader feeling satisfied.
The Darkover series was begun in 1960 by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley and has been continued since her death by a number of authors. It still has a slight
feel of 60's science fiction, but writers like Waters or Mercedes Lackey easily
overcome that. In this case, the feel is very slight. The one major drawback of sampling the series randomly in fairly recent short stories is the lack of a back story and a glossary of terms.
The brevity of this very short story avoids having this be an annoyance.
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