(urth) Sev's silence about Catherine

[Dave Tallman]

Andrew wrote:
> This has probably been pointed out multiple times, but surely by 
> the end of UOTNS Sev knows his mother's story. We're told 
> explicitly that Gurloes and Palaemon must know the parentage of the 
> apprentices (Shadow VII). I can't imagine that Sev would not have 
> gotten the story from Palaemon in his meeting with him at the end 
> of Citadel. Or if not from Palaemon, surely from Ouen.
Are we sure Sev didn't decide to leave well enough alone? He heard from 
Ouen that a runaway Pelerine named Catherine was very possibly his 
mother. He was also convinced that his mother was tortured to death, 
"Soon she would be led away to scream in the Apparatus or gasp in 
Allowin's necklace," he says in Claw XXVII. If he made further inquiries 
he would be sure to find out exactly how she died, and he might have 
preferred not to know. He may never have connected Catherine with the 
Katharine of the elevation ceremony, so the possibility that she might 
still be alive wouldn't occur to him.