This is an interesting scene to me. It’s certainly inviting comparison to the earlier scene of Scipio and Fr’Nj in bed together. It’s arguably just as erotic, but in a very different way. That scene was about the joys of discovery, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All dialogue here is Flo’s, and what a wonderful piece it is. She really captured the profound mixed emotions running through Gravedust right now. He misses Byron too, and he’d love to ease Syr’Nj’s pain: “Our friend. Our brother.” He […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yikes. Big yikes. See what I meant yesterday? Those fungus-pink eyes, and that normally styled but now slightly ragged hair… when Syr’Nj says later in this chapter that she “can’t allow herself to start crying,” I think she’s speaking broadly, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have to say, Gravedust keeping his dead friend’s spirit in an enchanted arrow sounds like a great alt-universe story to explore. I think I wrote this bit partly out of my ongoing mild frustration that we’d set Gravedust up as “peacemaker” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Right away, we learn that Syr’Nj has definitely not bounced back from the events of Chapter 36. She’s still enough in command of herself that she’s coordinated the aforementioned “retrieval of the dead” in an orderly fashion. But the signs are all […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
