The two angles aren't mutually incompatible -- by that point in time, Winnowill's notion of love might not be too healthy -- but the notion that she actually did have feelings for Smelt works for me.
I'm willing to accept it. I like it especially because it allows the first two captions here to be read ambiguously: not just Smelt's appetites, but Winnowill's own needs—to be valued, to be needed, to be loved—which in hindsight she castigates as the greed that opened her up for betrayal. That happens to you once, you make sure from then on that if anyone is going to be doing the betraying, it's you. You won't be caught like that again. You'll catch others. The less loving one will always be you.
The details have slipped my memory, but it involved them going directly into the dreamspace of her mind and (I think) managing to re-create the spirit of the man she loved, which she had destroyed back in the Elizabethan period, so the two of them could reconcile.
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I'm willing to accept it. I like it especially because it allows the first two captions here to be read ambiguously: not just Smelt's appetites, but Winnowill's own needs—to be valued, to be needed, to be loved—which in hindsight she castigates as the greed that opened her up for betrayal. That happens to you once, you make sure from then on that if anyone is going to be doing the betraying, it's you. You won't be caught like that again. You'll catch others. The less loving one will always be you.
The details have slipped my memory, but it involved them going directly into the dreamspace of her mind and (I think) managing to re-create the spirit of the man she loved, which she had destroyed back in the Elizabethan period, so the two of them could reconcile.
Go, you.