just a single guard to make sure he's really dead for a night and to keep the cats and dogs from having a go at it
Incidentally, this is something I agonized over in "Grind." We have a hungry dog complaining about how there's nothing to eat, and there's a fresh corpse right there. :P But for obvious reasons I didn't want to touch that with a ten-foot-pole, and I decided to handwave it with "I don't know how long it takes before pets start eating their owners, but hopefully longer than 10 minutes?" And then cahn didn't call me on it while betaing, so I just went "la la la" in hopes no one would notice. ;)
There are other major plot holes that I agonized over, but so far, aside from Heinrich's mishandling of Fritz, no one's called me on them either, phew. My excuse for all is the deadline!
Given the way those dogs were spoiled with their food, I just assumed Alcmene was too much of a foodie to go near something like Fritz' corpse unless she was truly starving. :) More seriously, I do hope it takes a bit longer for pets to see their owners as food, yes. Mind you, whether or not I'm right about the casts and dogs mentioned by Heinrich being owned by the Comtesse de la Roche-Raymon, he was obviously unsentimental enough to assume they could have a go if not hindered. I'm not up to hit right now, but I do recall there are some gruesome stories about gnawed at royal corpses where no one was around keeping watch...
Given the way those dogs were spoiled with their food, I just assumed Alcmene was too much of a foodie to go near something like Fritz' corpse unless she was truly starving. :)
Well, now that I've seen the descriptions of the various roasts, the cakes, the buttery rolls, and the milk, I think you've got it, by Jove! :P
I like the idea of Alcmene as a foodie. :D Her modern AU counterpart can have an Instagram feed where she posts pictures of her food.
I'm not up to hit right now, but I do recall there are some gruesome stories about gnawed at royal corpses where no one was around keeping watch...
Ooh. Well, when you are, you know we want to hear them! I know of stories from modern news articles (and of course scavenging dogs on battlefields--they're in the first few lines of the Iliad for a reason!), but am not thinking of European royal examples off the top of my head.
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Re: Various questions from Mildred
Date: 2021-02-28 12:57 pm (UTC)Incidentally, this is something I agonized over in "Grind." We have a hungry dog complaining about how there's nothing to eat, and there's a fresh corpse right there. :P But for obvious reasons I didn't want to touch that with a ten-foot-pole, and I decided to handwave it with "I don't know how long it takes before pets start eating their owners, but hopefully longer than 10 minutes?" And then
There are other major plot holes that I agonized over, but so far, aside from Heinrich's mishandling of Fritz, no one's called me on them either, phew. My excuse for all is the deadline!
Re: Various questions from Mildred
Date: 2021-02-28 05:29 pm (UTC)Dog diets
Date: 2021-02-28 06:43 pm (UTC)Well, now that I've seen the descriptions of the various roasts, the cakes, the buttery rolls, and the milk, I think you've got it, by Jove! :P
I like the idea of Alcmene as a foodie. :D Her modern AU counterpart can have an Instagram feed where she posts pictures of her food.
I'm not up to hit right now, but I do recall there are some gruesome stories about gnawed at royal corpses where no one was around keeping watch...
Ooh. Well, when you are, you know we want to hear them! I know of stories from modern news articles (and of course scavenging dogs on battlefields--they're in the first few lines of the Iliad for a reason!), but am not thinking of European royal examples off the top of my head.