On the one hand, the reader has direct evidence of the character's mental state from the narrator they are reading, which gives them direct access to the to the character's thoughts and emotions. . However, the reader's understanding of the characters is tempered by the narration and their interactions with other characters as presented by the other narrator. For example, the reader's first introduction to the text's narrative style, which coincidentally is also its first depiction of the Scorpion's races, is through Sean's narration as a ten-year-old boy watching his father die on the beach. He talks about the fear on his father's face and the experience of being greeted by the other runners as if he belonged on that beach. When he describes riding a capall, it is not with fear that the horse will eat him; instead, he describes riding with pride and adulation. He declares: “I rode him, this capall. On my back, the wind that hits me, the ground that shakes me, the sea that sprays our legs, we never tire” (3). This is a very different depiction of the Capaill uisce compared to Puck's understanding of them as monsters, the killers of his parents. Even his first description of Sean differs, producing a jarring narrative effect as the focus