Date: 05 Dec 2011 10:41 Title: Chapter 21
Ha! So MU Polloria and Baden planned it. They had been planning this for eight years! And now they tried to trap Chawev into it and to force him to do what they wanted and even tried to trap Treve by wanting him to kill MU Jenn. But Treve was smarter than that and his father also started to think rationally.
Our universe scheming Calafans don't seem to be much better than their MU counterparts. Only their victim isn't as sex obsessed as MU Jenn.
But MU Jenn seems changed. Is it the bond with Treve that made her too soft for her own universe now?
I hope the Calafans can find a way to bring Doug to the other side of the pond, because he's going to be dead otherwise :(
Author's Response:
Oh, the MU people are nasty, eh? For the family, the key is Treve - because Yipran took forever and stubbornly didn't die. Chawev has few qualms (in either universe) when it comes to cheating on and poisoningg his wife and leaving her to her fate, but he chickens out when it comes time to dispatch her. He cannot deliver or order the coup de grace. And so Tree grows up and it presents a moral dilemma for him - and he comes down on the side of doing the right thing.
For MU Jenn, her brain-wiping was perhaps a bit less carefully performed than Lili's - so it's affected her personality. She's (Jenn) seeing that life on the Defiant is a dead end.
Doug - well, yes, he is sealing his own fate. And this is a truly generous act he is performing for Jenn. He could very easily kill her or take her back, and would probably be rewarded somehow for doing either. By letting her go, as when he tells Lili that he loves her, he's learning to act outside himself. Other people are becoming important to him.
But as you correctly pointed out, such sacrifices are painting a rather large target on his back.