We, The Infected

If Eli is a boy, why would he deny being one? Is he telling a falsehood, or is there something else going on? What is on Eli's mind in this scene, I wonder? At this point, Eli has established an "ordinary" friendship (i.e. with someone else than a helper, I assume) for the first time for 200 years....

Siggdalos wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 28, 2023 11:11 am

WATSON: And in Danish it's læsknallert.

Not quite. It's ladknallert.

And in Dutch it's brombakfiets. (Fiets = bicycle, bromfiets = moped, bakfiets = transport-bicycle, literally crate-bicycle.)

The question presupposes that the urge to reconnect with his parents occurs after he's been turned. If that were the case, would it not be doubly cruel to them to know that not only did he abandon the parent-child relationship, but he's also chosen to become a blood-sucking monster? Parental love &...

[...] do you think there is a chance that Oskar may actually regret his decision a little? Now that he's had a taste of that life for a few years, there is a tragic side to it in the sense that he will never grow as a person. He will never blossom into adult hood. He's forever at the age of 12. Gra...

[...] Covenant captures this beautifully in his drawing "after the song" http://www.sleepingdragon.me/AfterTheSong.jpg outside a cabin, after Eli has fed. Wonder how it looks like inside that cabin... That link doesn't work. Can the pic be found elsewhere? You might try asking covenant himself thro...

Siggdalos wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 28, 2023 5:11 pm

[...] but a graphic novel adaptation could be something really special if done by the right artist.

I know only one that I think would do LtROI good service: Rolf Gohs.

Unfortunately he died in 2020...

If, say, Oskar were the first "real" friend Eli's had in a couple centuries or more, does this maybe imply that at least one of her not-so-real friends were bound by some kind of thrall? That's one interpretation. The exact line is: Jag har inte haft nån ... vanlig vän på två hundra år. "I haven't ...

Is the hitchhiker also a vampire but one who has decided to kill other vampires? Or is she an uninfected person who had a vision that set her on the path to becoming a vampire slayer? No need for spoiler protection any longer... The hitch-hiker had been given a call, which she had to follow. I don'...

Well, this thread used to have several good pictures illustrating places in the novel that drakkar had shot, so I have been aware of the general layout and appearance of the school since I first found this forum. Alas, drakkar apparently finished whatever account he used to serve the images several ...

Interesting, especially the interior pictures of the pool room and the shower room. From outside pictures of the gym building and the pool extension, I had understood that there had to be a short flight of stairs between the washing room and the pool room because of different floor levels. The stair...