Camp Nano - Last line of last night

[aldersprig]

Cecily shrugged. "He's your Kept. I could take him from you, whatever he wanted. That's how being Kept works."

34,776 words
15,224 to go

At this rate, I will finish on 8/3

Did you know, in Camp Nano you can change your goal - up to the 24th? I learned the first part yesterday and the second part, sadly, today.

Comments

[clare_dragonfly]

Either there's something very strange going on in this story or the wording is off in that sentence... because being Kept doesn't mean getting whatever you want, usually!

[aldersprig]

Well... both.

"whatever he wanted" in this case meaning more like "whether he wanted me to to not."

[clare_dragonfly]

Maybe that will make more sense in context...

[inventrix]

I dunno, it seemed perfectly clear to me that "whatever he wanted" is roughly equivalent to "no matter what he wanted".

I think you're reading it as if the comma is a colon or semicolon?

[clare_dragonfly]

I think that's what I was doing! (Semicolon or dash, maybe... I think I would have used a dash there.) Thanks, that makes more sense now :D

ETA: Having thought about it more, I may have been perceiving it as a very short list...

[inventrix]

*raises hand* QUESTION!

Isn't it possible for a Kept to resist being released or transferred? (I totally recognize that the characters involved May Not Know That but I'm curious if I'm misremembering.)

[aldersprig]

Yes. ;-)

[natf]

I am also having great difficulty parsing that last line based on what I know of your AG universe. How could she take someone's Kept from them? How does doing what the Kept wants gel with how Keeping works? *confused*