“Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by name, you are mine.”
-Isaiah 43:1
Update to my old post from last June: the two now three times we see Ronan call Adam by his first name (aloud, to his face). One time per book. Each in a moment fraught with emotion, each in a moment where Cabeswater’s presence is strongly felt.
I think about this Isaiah passage for Ronan often.
Another example of how I edit these books for a millionbillion years in an attempt to make myself look as cleverly as humanly possible.
It pleases me enormously when readers notice.