Commotion in the Winds

Killer-Kate and Luke Lackland: 460 words.   The Widow scene concludes.  Another aspect of the Kateverse really came out in this conversation.  Our own pre-modern Europe was stuck enough on the idea of  'as above, so below', and the direct connection between the divinely inspired orders of Nature and of human society.  How much more firmly would people - especially the governing people - cling to this notion when faced with the blatant existence of Elfland, with its perverse enchantments, incomprehensible royalty, and frequent casual abuse of space, time, faith, and reason?

Above all, those who live within a day's ride of the dubious borderlands?  I am coming to understand Golden Kate and her kind just a little bit better.

This is going to add a whole new spice to Luke's interaction with the apocalyptic Saturn-preachers in the lowland towns, our only direct glimpse of which I now need to grant before turning Kate homewards, and the chapter towards its close.  I should like to get this one finished before I stroll off for my holiday!