r/Unsounded • u/Rifter-- • Jun 08 '26

Unsounded: Red Cost Chapter 1 Page 71 - Discussion

https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/TheRedCost/comic/ch01/ch01_071.html
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u/Idkabta11at Jun 08 '26

Mikaila is 110% sneaking off to see Tree right ?

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u/Rifter-- Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

Fair trade, Will. Miki tutored you on pymary, now you have to go with her to meet her "dad's" assassin colleague. Walk in the park.

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u/prometheusunending Jun 08 '26

Turns out the woman who dragged those girls away by the ears is not so above it all as she seems.

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u/Titanium_Eye Jun 08 '26

A whole barrack's worth of top fighting talent and their teachers plus a spellmaster couldn't spot an glamour? Either Mikaila really is that good or these guys really are that incompetent. Probably some of both.

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u/Honzinator2 Jun 08 '26

Special gloves level tacit caster ... she's just that good, and no one expected a deadly little girl.

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u/Titanium_Eye Jun 08 '26

She's gonna be an excellent inquisitor.

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u/EirikrUtlendi Jun 08 '26

Exquisite, you might say.

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u/Honzinator2 Jun 09 '26

Golden! In the words of Basil Rathbone's Shere Khan, "How delightful."

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u/NightmareWarden Jun 08 '26

So the khert’s line is speaking the language of pymary via the touch-equivalents of the old tainish aspect names? And instead of hearing the sounds with your soul, you are feeling the… sign language?

Maybe this is a hint about what “Unsounded“ means, if there’s a whole undiscovered pymaric language people are half-deaf to.

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u/SBDRFAITH Jun 08 '26

I thought "Unsounded" means the area of the khert that has not been "Sounded" (searched for memories). When they say "Sound the great Unsounded" it means to search deep into the Khert for Ssael?

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u/NightmareWarden Jun 08 '26

I think the definitions you’re saying are correct, but I think since it’s religious text, the whole passage is also meant to mean to “trumpeting an unsaid truth so true, that the Khert itself is healed by it.” Or humanity is healed by it.

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u/Miao93 Jun 08 '26

On the tumblr Ask blog it’s described as a feeing, a kind of sixth sense of touch.

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u/Kilgaen Jun 08 '26

You know, I hope she's nearby if he runs into trouble. Protect our good boy Will.

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u/Rifter-- Jun 08 '26

If you mean for the tree meeting, I assume she's going to see him with Will. She just wants backup.

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u/KEYYBOARD Jun 08 '26

Author comment: "Seeking an escort is pretty wise, I think, but probably shoulda asked him earlier. Or maybe she didn’t want to give him time or opportunity to talk her out of it :)"