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Well, at the expense of several client deadlines this week and a memo still to be edited in my inbox by Monday morning, and most of the NFE still unread and nothing responded to, I decided to make very poor use of time and... formally begin Book 6 of the Stone Gryphon, Heart and Crow Make the Peace.
The WW2 material is not as spot on as typical. I'm having some trouble with that for various reasons. Edmund should really be in Cairo with Dudley Clarke or he and Walker-Smythe should both be in London. While Operation Mincemeat is well researched and reported on, it was part of Operation Barclay and there is virtually nothing on that other than a few paragraphs repeated over and over. There is a real dearth of material on the things I've wanted Lucy to do and I even make fun of it a bit -- she's not going to be able to commandeer a ship, steal foodstuffs, and sail off to Greece. And while the British Red Cross is a good place to start for her, it was the International Red Cross that was involved in the grain shipments from Canada and South America. With my recent NFE story The Doctor Is In, the Red Cross now ties back to Narnia.
I have tweaked the parts with John Pevensie. He IS an ass and that hasn't changed. But going way back to the beginning of Oxfordshire 1942 I never wanted to deal with anyone actually IN the service. HA HA I know. One way I did that was to make John opposed to Peter's service -- which is not true to the time or patriotic. BUT if he had say, been a radio operator and heard men suffocating in submarines or dying at Dunkirk, yes, this begins to make sense. And further, it adds to the choking irony that he'll be really pissed to find out about -- that he went to war to keep his children safe only for a stupid ass Lion to rip them out of this world and march them into war.
I've also changed the letter that Helen writes to Edmund after Morgan's visit.
Anyway, thank you to those of you still out there. Welcome to the new!
Heart and Crow Make The Peace (50583 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 7/?
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Helen Pevensie, Mr. Pevensie (Narnia)
Additional Tags: World War II, Spies & Secret Agents
Series: Part 6 of The Stone Gryphon
Summary:
Chapters: 7/?
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Helen Pevensie, Mr. Pevensie (Narnia)
Additional Tags: World War II, Spies & Secret Agents
Series: Part 6 of The Stone Gryphon
Summary:
Book 6 in The Stone Gryphon story cycle. Lucy and Edmund find their way in Spare Oom.
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi
"The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds."
Dalai Lama
The WW2 material is not as spot on as typical. I'm having some trouble with that for various reasons. Edmund should really be in Cairo with Dudley Clarke or he and Walker-Smythe should both be in London. While Operation Mincemeat is well researched and reported on, it was part of Operation Barclay and there is virtually nothing on that other than a few paragraphs repeated over and over. There is a real dearth of material on the things I've wanted Lucy to do and I even make fun of it a bit -- she's not going to be able to commandeer a ship, steal foodstuffs, and sail off to Greece. And while the British Red Cross is a good place to start for her, it was the International Red Cross that was involved in the grain shipments from Canada and South America. With my recent NFE story The Doctor Is In, the Red Cross now ties back to Narnia.
I have tweaked the parts with John Pevensie. He IS an ass and that hasn't changed. But going way back to the beginning of Oxfordshire 1942 I never wanted to deal with anyone actually IN the service. HA HA I know. One way I did that was to make John opposed to Peter's service -- which is not true to the time or patriotic. BUT if he had say, been a radio operator and heard men suffocating in submarines or dying at Dunkirk, yes, this begins to make sense. And further, it adds to the choking irony that he'll be really pissed to find out about -- that he went to war to keep his children safe only for a stupid ass Lion to rip them out of this world and march them into war.
I've also changed the letter that Helen writes to Edmund after Morgan's visit.
Anyway, thank you to those of you still out there. Welcome to the new!