Chapter 18, Moles in the Garden, Part 2

[rthstewart]

Chapter 18 went up this evening, Moles in the Garden, Part 2.


I killed Guy.  I've actually killed off a number of OCs, but this is the first onscreen one.  Susan's entreaty to Guy that he tell Lambert that she IS coming, that she will see him again, is one of the oldest parts of this story.  So too was Tebbitt's gentle handling of Susan as she rinses away Guy's blood and begins to confuse Narnia and Spare Oom.  The lament and farewell were recent editions, with Edmund's lament for the Traitor something that came into being this week. 

A word about Edmund.  I have emphasized his Rat and Crow interest.  Further, he has been involved in the more "transactional" and "written" part of the whole Just thing -- treaties, laws, amendments, and so forth.  This is a significant part of what legal types do.  They do not all go to court and argue things as trial lawyers and barristers.  We have not yet seen this part of Edmund in my stories -- his province as adjudicator of the accused.  It's coming and here we see that just because I've not written it yet, doesn't mean it's not there and important.

Fleming, by the way, is Ian Fleming, who was part of the BSC and did have some really stupid ideas about crashing planes into the Channel in order to steal Enigma machines off of U-boats.  Fleming was originally going to be the one to figure out the Rat and Crow in Susan's last letter to Edmund.  I decided relatively recently to have the Colonel be the one who decides to take a look a her letter.  Tebbitt's disclosure of her odd rambling and insistence of writing to Edmund was also a relatively recent addition.

Oh, and Gillian?  Your review has created a Thing, now known as "mystically delicious."  It involves chocolate  You will notice the new icon in metonomia 's Live Journal.

Comments

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

As I said, Susan's promise is the assurance to everyone. Even when her heart is pierced by three swords, even in the bitterness that is to come, that promise to Lambert holds and sustains her. When I wrote the Christmas story, I knew this was where their promise to one another would come, with her exhortation to Guy as he died.

And I'm not going there with Edmund. No Way.