I won’t recount the entirety of my comments to Ron and Maril in the wake of this conversation, but I recall saying, '…there’s a massive emotional distance between, ‘I love you so passionately that I want you to shed my blood and scar me forever so I can remember your touch,’ and ‘Here, darling, take the ugliest wedding present ever to remember me by for the forty-five minutes before you die.’' I got a grip and asked calmly what that was, only to be told that they were going to have Claire give Jamie the chunk of amber with the dragonfly, prior to going through the stones. (BTW… one of the writers was chatting with me before a Writers Bloc interview in LA and said, 'We’re not going to do the cutting initials, but you’ll love what we’re doing instead!' I didn’t say anything (out of shock) but the expression on my face must have given a general impression of not being proactively thrilled. I’d thought of posting this bit from DRAGONFLY before the TV show’s finale for season two, and warning you that the show wasn’t doing it this way, lest finding this particular bit omitted might cause some of you (you know who you are…) to become Disgruntled and thus miss the real beauty and intensity of Jamie and Claire’s farewell.īut then I decided that I shouldn’t do that not only would it be a spoiler, it might well rile some people a priori and not only spoil the ending for them, but also cause any amount of hopping up and down and general agitation that I didn’t think would serve anyone going into what’s really a spectacular ending.īut I did want to show the original to you, both as a solace to the book-fans, and a small gift to the TV-show-only fans.

Mark of the dragonfly book 2