Thank you, Krystyna! I've spend the weekend writing Pierce and Maeve, 2,500 words of it -- so I am officially insane, writing romance fic for OCs where there is barely even a mention of a canon character. Pathetic, but I'm enjoying playing with the Banker mentality. The Bankers and Lone Islanders have lived alone and isolated and regulating themselves for a long time and this is going to be a significant change for them.
Writing Linch was enormously fun. You raise interesting points about what is to happen with Rabadash's invasion. Something being set up here to provide a more rational backstory for that -- that Rabadash is under pressure to retain his succession to Tisroc. There are other scheming factions that outright oppose him and others that are more subtle about it. He's not stupid and not totally irrational. But, Susan makes a fool of him, which he cannot afford -- his pride takes a SEVERE beating, and off camera in Horse and His Boy, you can just imagine some oily advisors who really support other factions saying JUST THE WORSE things possible to really enrage him. If you look at the possibility that there are others in the background, unseen, trying hard to and succeeding in manipulating him. say factions that bitterly oppose any alliance with the North, it is easy to see how the whole mess could come about. They make sure Rabadash is shown to his worse possible advantage, drive the Narnian Queen away and then when Rabadash might try to retain some dignity or show some restraint, they undermine him, too.
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Writing Linch was enormously fun. You raise interesting points about what is to happen with Rabadash's invasion. Something being set up here to provide a more rational backstory for that -- that Rabadash is under pressure to retain his succession to Tisroc. There are other scheming factions that outright oppose him and others that are more subtle about it. He's not stupid and not totally irrational. But, Susan makes a fool of him, which he cannot afford -- his pride takes a SEVERE beating, and off camera in Horse and His Boy, you can just imagine some oily advisors who really support other factions saying JUST THE WORSE things possible to really enrage him. If you look at the possibility that there are others in the background, unseen, trying hard to and succeeding in manipulating him. say factions that bitterly oppose any alliance with the North, it is easy to see how the whole mess could come about. They make sure Rabadash is shown to his worse possible advantage, drive the Narnian Queen away and then when Rabadash might try to retain some dignity or show some restraint, they undermine him, too.
Ahem. Done now! thanks again!