Difference between revisions of "Charlie"

When Charlie displays romantic interest in [[Tress]], he is shipped off the island by his father to find a suitor among the nobility instead.{{book ref|tress|2}} Hoping to come back to [[Diggen's Point]] empty handed to be with Tress again, Charlie sabotages his meetings with the princesses by boring them with anecdotes and throwing up on one who was deaf. The duke catches on to Charlie's plans and has him sent to the [[Sorceress]] to be rid of him.{{book ref|tress|5}} The Sorceress then curses him, which turns him into a rat; the curse can only be broken if Charlie brings Tress to the Sorceress to be cursed.{{book ref|tress|60}}{{book ref|tress|epilogue}}

 

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Charlie tries to go back to Diggen's Point as a rat, stowing away on the ''[[Oot's Dream]]''. He's caught eating their rations, and is captured and put in a cage in the ship's hold.{{book ref|tress|9}} Tress happens to be put there as well, and when the ''[[Crow's Song]]'' attacks the ''Oot's Dream'', sinking it, she rescues Charlie from his cage. Since, due to his curse, he can't tell her that his name is Charlie, he tries to say "Chuck," but it comes out as "Huck."{{book ref|tress|11}}{{book ref|tress|61}} The seethe stops, and Tress carries Charlie on her shoulder and they walk together to the ''Crow's Song'', climbing on board.{{book ref|tress|12}}

 

When Tress uses the [[Luhel bond]] to transfer her consciousness to [[Midnight Essence]], she quickly becomes dehydrated and Charlie saves her life by pulling her waterskin towards her with his teeth.{{book ref|tress|31}}

=== Sailing the Crimson ===

To deter Tress from continuing towards the [[Sorceress's island]], Charlie tells her about the trials she'll have to face when she gets there, saying that he knows about them from the "rat population" of a port the ''Crow's Song'' stopped at, but it doesn't work and the ''Crow's Song'' continues onwards.{{book ref|tress|47}}