#comfrey mcleod

The final pages of Montgomery LaMontgommery's final adventure book.

Monty, the man Comfrey maligned as a coward. A dandy. Soft. Not a 'real' Wind Rider. Monty, the man who called her out when she was buying too much of her own hype and endangering those around her because of it. Montgomery La-Goddamn-Montgommery is the one facing down certain death with Olethra, not her grandma.

Monty never told Olethra what he thought of Comfrey. He didn't want to tarnish that adoration, but he knows the dangers of buying the hype, because adventure means everything to Olethra. And he's been around enough to know how dangerous that is.

So when Comfrey looks horrified and finally realizes her granddaughter means everything to her, she's finally, FINALLY on the same page as Monty. And he's up there with Olethra the way Comfrey never was and I LOVE HIM SO MUCH.

So a bootstrap paradox refers to a causal loop in time travel. It’s when something has no origin or beginning, because in the object’s own future, it ends up in the past, which then again leads to the future, goes again back to the past etc etc. so where did the thing originally come from? Nowhere, it simply exists. That’s the paradox

I really hope the keys are a bootstrap. I know Brennan mentioned cadswitch getting them from some monks in relation to the stone towers. But eh I don’t find that very satisfying. They’ve unlocked every door they’ve needed to in the intrepid heroes journey. So how does cadswitch get the keys? Hopefully either from comfrey or Maxwell, either by cadswitch appearing in the future of zood/zern, or by the heroes somehow time travelling to gath’s past (the door inside the straka seems like a possibility).

So for example, the keys are given to young Cadswitch by a time travelling Maxwell, Cadswitch gives them to comfrey a few years later, then Maxwell get them in the repossession. Maxwell then time travels back to young Cadswitch and repeats the loop.

And with everything we've learned about Comfrey, it doesn't feel like a reach for her to, you know, stretch the truth a little to make a better narrative out of it. Like the way she spun her getting funding from the Ministry as getting one over them or the way she spun Monty leaving as him not being a real adventurer.