Hiding fandom in the underwear drawer since 1977

So I just posted Chapter 20, Covered in Thorns of Harold and Morgan.  The chapter jumps around a bit in time, all told probably spanning about 2-3 months.  Some of this chapter is really, really, really old. 

It's been an odd week about which the less said the better.  This upcoming week, we have Hurricane/Cyclone/Nor'easter Sandy bearing down  on us, so that's definitely not good and my thoughts to those of you in the path, too.  Stay safe!

edit:  Now that it is not near 2 AM, there are a couple of other things I wanted to add.

Hoberry's comments about what death does to memory and communication are, not surprisingly, based upon personal experience.  Lucy mentions this during the Dieppe memorial Chapter 2 of TQSiT, how people say odd things when they are grieving.  The strangest conversations of my life and some of the worst arguments have been when there was a casket in the room.

Second, if you like, you can invent all sort of things about Edmund and the handsome, witty, very adroit Archen widower, Lord Abnur.  I have my own head canon there, but neither has deigned to confirm it, being the clever and discreet men that they are.

Third, Seth Stanleh's letter, while cheating in reveal of Plot, also has a whole lot to say about character.  In earlier drafts, I had him being very sympathetic and including a letter for Rufus, who had been his guard.  That came out and he expresses his condolences in a short, curt sentence and then moves on to what is more interesting and important to him.  He concludes, clever boy that he is, with a quid pro quo.  I gave you all THIS and now won't you let me continue working on the mine?  Oh Seth.  You still have a ways to go.

I realized that an earlier version of Edmund's letter to Morgan mentioned her Gryphon flight but it somehow disappeared in the editing and different versions I've had of that letter -- which date back at least 2 years.  So, I'll be editing the story to add that line back in. 

The short conversation with Peter that Edmund has does reflect my own particular head canon of the relationship which is not especially emotionally intimate.  That's not a popular interpretation at all. 

Oh, I also posted a story about the Gryphon General from the last HM chapter on nffr_party called Camouflage. 

Time to clean out the gutters.