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I guess I came late to Spice & Wolf :P Anyways, I'd like to ask a question. I've read the first 5 books now and finished the second season, but this episode / book got me somewhat confused.
From what I could understand, the relationship problem they had in this last town was due to something Holo "feared". She states that she doesn't fear she'll be at his deathbed due to her not aging, so it's something else. From what I could understand from the book, she feared that their relationship would go stale, as if the "honeymoon period" would end, like so many married couples after the years pass and their relationship becomes routine. I got this idea because of a few things that were said, mainly in the book:
- Even though Holo's life spans centuries, she's not a god and thus cannot make a "forever happy" paradise. In the end she's like everyone else, and gets tired of things.
- Lawrence thinks to himself that the reason Holo doesn't seek the companionship of other creatures similar to her (with a long life) is because she would tire of them.
- Holo says that bards always sing, regarding lovers, about how they wish to "return to when they first met".
- She also says how since they are getting closer and closer, at first simply grabbing his hand was very exciting, now a hug, then maybe a kiss, and so she would seek more and more but it can't go up forever, so what happens then? She asks this to him in the inn.
- Holo argues that this is a good time to end their relationship because it's been incredibly fun for her. She doesn't want to end it in a bad note, quoting "All is well that ends well".
So is this really her fear? Or was it something else?
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