God, I love your comments because you see things that I don't even think about when I'm writing. I just play a conversation in my head and let it go. I know that Palomides is his uncle's friend, an intellectual in a Dark Age -- which is why I made Grummer that way. It's so unexpected that a Pict barbarian would be reading Marcus Aurelius.
You have given Palomides and Locksley an unusual relationship - friendly on the surface, yet tenuous, wary , hard to characterize.
God, I love your comments because you see things that I don't even think about when I'm writing. I just play a conversation in my head and let it go. I know that Palomides is his uncle's friend, an intellectual in a Dark Age -- which is why I made Grummer that way. It's so unexpected that a Pict barbarian would be reading Marcus Aurelius.
Exactly! The unexpected ALWAYS enhances a story. You are good at it.