Chapter Fourteen Page 5
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Cohen (thinking): Well, that settles it. Beings don’t feel cold.
. . . Hang on. When he talks, when he breathes . . . there’s no fog. If he was human, he would be dead.
Cohen: Who’s your Master?
Not-yet-Patrick: Nobody, now.
Cohen: Not for long. I want to make the contract.
Not-yet-Patrick: Oh, good. Repeat after me: I, (your name here) —
Inside.
Guy #1: So then I say, babe, if you don’t like it —
. . . !!
Cohen: Gentlemen. You have a good night now, all right?
Hey — it won’t matter to them, but if you could look a bit less drunk . . .
Not-yet-Patrick: You’re warm.
Cohen: Uh . . . happy to help?
Disco Stu strikes gold! Nice look for not-yet-Patrick. Maybe it’s just me but big ’80s hair always reminds me of this… http://youtu.be/ILWSp0m9G2U
The focus on cold and warm… how long was the Dog out in that alley?
And I remember that big hair.
Good God, you survived the 80s?! How, how did you do it?
I was born in ’77, so about the same way everyone survives their childhood.
And the perms we went through trying to give my straight hair that fluff. :p
But if Beings don’t feel cold….I don’t think he means literally. Can’t Beings die if they’re without a Master for too long? What if his very SPIRIT feels cold? What if his feeling of cold is his life force dying?
or, more optimistically, quoting from Chapter 9, Pages 18-19:
“You are so bright and so warm. How can we not be drawn to you?”
A Being without a Master for any sustained length of time is in bad shape, yes… But I think Patrick is just sort of drunk on being without that Warmth… and now, maybe Cohen is Warmer than most?
The single most shallow reason to bond with a being ever. But on the plus side, disco-stu’s got himself a hot date!
What – to save them from cold?
That wasn’t his -reason- for bonding with Patrick, it was the only context in which he could leave the party with another person without it looking weird.
His reason for bonding with Patrick was probably along the lines of ‘I have wanted a being this whole time because I’m following in Ann Walker’s shady footsteps and holy crap look a being I have struck gold’.
Yes, yes, I know, but it kind of comes off that way, to anyone who didn’t know Patrick was dying.
He probably wasn’t. Well, technically, yes, but very slowly. He couldn’t be in that garbage for long, and he didn’t started with the contract right away so I don’t think he was THAT desperate.
I guess that he was just rejected by someone (or scared that someone off).
When making a statement contrary to fact you must use the subjunctive case. It should be “if he where human, he would be dead.”
Like most people, Cohen does not always express his thoughts with perfect grammar.
*were :P
Unrelated to the plot, but young Cohen is really hot.