Notes on: "Diana swears the Oath"

And here we go. The main event. The giant block of Text.

In regards to the oath itself? I guess I'd assume Tom used to play D&D or otherwise learned about wishes and wish-loopholes. That's some detailed oath-swearing.

Is it airtight?

I dunno... it seems to me like there are loopholes. And... you know, Diana could have tried to negotiate or at least discuss the oath...

Like I said, I dunno.

Anyway -- afterward, there's that brief moment of Tom feeding Diana tea... more ritual than not. Tom's the dominant. Diana's the submissive. That's how it is. This just makes it official in both their brains.

Of course, the moment that Diana is freed and gets her lariat back, she ties Tom up in it and questions him. But even then... she doesn't seem actively upset, does she? Interesting, that.

That said, Diana is clearly unbroken, whether or not she has recriminations. At the same time? When it starts raining, you accept that it's raining and act accordingly. There's no sense shaking your fist at the weather. This is what it is, so Diana works within that paradigm...

It's almost like Diana comes from a society based upon sharp divisions of class, which itself derives from a society where enslavement and bondage were simply a part of life and there was generally no shame in being a slave... and hand in hand with that worships a pantheon of beings -- which she belongs to -- that ennobles the very concept of enslaved servants and the expectations laid upon them....

Diana's many things. American? Not really one of them,