Annotated 26-6
This reunion had to be sweet and cute for the rest of the story to have emotional weight. Rachel wasn’t lying to herself. Her sisters really were as close and loving with her and each other as sisters ought to be. Once upon a time. Even Blair gets caught up in the nostalgia.
And the fact that both Hestia and Blair combine that expression of love with immediate trolling of the last person you’d expect them to troll shows they did glean a few things from Frigg besides how to beat people up.
I’m not sure anyone here is really using the word “shrewd” correctly, though.
Well, Blair’s at least using it as the right part of speech?
I was actually prompted by this to look up whether shrewd and shrew were related – they are, and, well…the old definitions of shrewd connected to shrew would sort of fit and would be uncharitable-but-not-entirely-incorrect descriptions of Frigg, so… I’ll give her this one.
None of the misuses of “shrewd” here are nearly as bad as using “cremation” to mean “killing someone by burning her alive” a few pages ago…
I believe that was an intentional misappropriation of the word in what now surely must be a well-practiced retelling of the story in a way that makes the spark of their new religion seem “righteous”. You don’t want to tell people that your Jesus figure ascended by straight out murdering a, well, a shrew.
Blair, like Blair from The Facts of Life? cause that’s funny.