Perhaps I should just say regarding your observations about Constance: Yes. Yes. Yes. I have a lot of the final chapter complete, save for the look into Constance's point of view. Among other things, I'm trying to decide how much is done via internal expository dump and how much is in conversation with Maeve. From the introductory section,
It had taken some significant effort. Fortunately, the Queen Susan had traveled with two very skilled dressmakers who could, for good cause shown, quickly alter gowns to a Narnian fashion. The clever Dwarfess and Faun would not have been cooperative at all if the goal had been frivolous. However, they knew their Queen's wishes. Changing from Calormene and Banker dress to Narnian was not about style, but politics and power.
Constance Meryl had never set a fashion in her life. That, like so many other things, was changing.
To get everything in that point of view character is going to take some manipulation but I think a lot of things will be clearer.
Such as,
The worse day of her life had been when the idiot Gertrude (Constance refused to call her Director or the Meryl unless unavoidable) had decided that Morgan Linch or Maeve Stanleh would marry Alan (and none of this joint venture nonsense – call it what it really was) and take Constance’s own House from her.
The second worse day of her life had been when the young Constance Meryl of Anvard Pass Keep learned she could not leave her dreary home to become maid to the child-Queen Lucy of Narnia.
so yes, working on it. And of course Constance has an enormous interest in seeing Morgan leave the Lone Islands for good, go to Narnia, and never come back.....
Re: from Krystyna
It had taken some significant effort. Fortunately, the Queen Susan had traveled with two very skilled dressmakers who could, for good cause shown, quickly alter gowns to a Narnian fashion. The clever Dwarfess and Faun would not have been cooperative at all if the goal had been frivolous. However, they knew their Queen's wishes. Changing from Calormene and Banker dress to Narnian was not about style, but politics and power.
Constance Meryl had never set a fashion in her life. That, like so many other things, was changing.
To get everything in that point of view character is going to take some manipulation but I think a lot of things will be clearer.
Such as,
The worse day of her life had been when the idiot Gertrude (Constance refused to call her Director or the Meryl unless unavoidable) had decided that Morgan Linch or Maeve Stanleh would marry Alan (and none of this joint venture nonsense – call it what it really was) and take Constance’s own House from her.
The second worse day of her life had been when the young Constance Meryl of Anvard Pass Keep learned she could not leave her dreary home to become maid to the child-Queen Lucy of Narnia.
so yes, working on it. And of course Constance has an enormous interest in seeing Morgan leave the Lone Islands for good, go to Narnia, and never come back.....