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[ladylight]

I got a bite I got a bite I got a bite!!

And yes, it's now after 4am and I'm still insanely hyped up on coffee, but I couldn't go to bed when I finally had something! (And now I'm posting it as well because I can't sleep @_@)

Thank you so much for your help, my wonderful wonderful lovelies!! SO happy and relieved! I know what I'll be trying again

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Yaylissness!

[saltnester]

[twitch] That just made me want to set fire to 'rannon too [is in a mood to set fire to things] but I wouldn't 'cos he'd glare at me and he has scary eyes. [nods] Rather kewl to have our attention drawn to these two as being 'children', it's easily forgotten. I always expected Simbelyne to be less fluent than she was, if that helps.

truly random question: Does Simbelyne have a camel at home somewhere?

Re: Yaylissness!

[ladylight]

*cackles hard* I think he'd be a bit upset by being on fire, yes.

And yet the idea has true merit. You dismiss it far too quickly.

Rannon is one of those annoying people who somehow has very little go wrong for him, even when it logically should, thereby failing to teach him a lesson most of the time. He's a lot more dangerous than most people assume, actually. If he had a little less luck to go with his overconfidence, people would probably have died on account of it (and one or two actually have).

Then there is no time for delay. The question is settled. Fire is the only answer.

*ignore* Not a camel, alas - very shaggy horses. I had to make the Barrenground into a cold desert rather than a hot one when I fixed issues with my map. :( Hot deserts are still more fun, though ...

Thankees for reading! And I have a paragraph of Tintauri staring at me already ... should have tried this lot before O_o

Re: Yaylissness!

[saltnester]

You'd be surprised how many people will just stand and watch if you walk up with a lighted match and set fire to them...it was a favourite trick of my bother's and I still got him with it...

They use thingies, lumpy thingies...bactrians! In cold deserts.

[beamage]

Re: Yaylissness!

[ladylight]

That is hilarious. I wish I didn't have such a strong desire to try it XD;;

I could make other ridey beasts, but I'm rather attached to my shaggy magic-modified horsies ... that's where the Paladin's white breed comes from, distantly ... though perhaps the horsies could just be for chiefs? *hmm*

And hahaha *slightly manic*, I've just finished a three-day scribble and come up with 12,000+ words about winterknights. What was I saying about contagion again? >_>

(I think we can safely say drought's over XD)

[annarti]

YAY Another writing drought broken! *dances with* No thanks to Schiri, of course XD;

I love the Rannon <3 I do so want to smack him over the head with a wet fish sometimes, but there's just something so incredibly endearing about him *^^*

I love Simbelyne, because it's so clear that her own culture is infinitely different to the one she's traveling with. Etiquette obviously makes up a lot of her old life, so I reckon it'd be really interesting to see that play more of a part in the story, too.

Also? Language barriers, even slight ones, are fun X) Inconvenient sometimes, but mostly fun, especially when you're reading them XD

*glomps again* I love getting the writing groove back *T_T*

[ladylight]

The only things that are ever 'thanks to Schiri' are headaches :P

*dancedancedance* I've not just broken it, I've flown up to the clouds and seeded a downpour! O_o (hides from new spam) Oh-so-very happy, still, though. Eeeee and eeee, oh, and eeeeee, too XD;;

Rannon is a screaming pain in the behind, but it's such a well-meaning pain that he inflicts, really. Not that well-meaning pain is any less painful, but still ... boo! Happy grin! Silly joke! Look at the shiny monkey!

I think I feel a bit warmer towards Simbelyne than I usually do, too. I mean, I like my girl, but sometimes she's a bit distant and frosty. Maybe it's the manners thing. Or maybe it's just the rampant pity for being so Paladinically put-upon XD;;

Thankyous for reading, hon! *glomp*

*somersaults a bit*

[sharaith]

Yay, it's Simbelyne! I've missed her.

I have a strong urge to smack Lorannon here too. What a twit. ^_^

PS: Thank god you gave up on the Simbelyne/Schiri pairing. :P

[ladylight]

I did too, and didn't realise or expect it at all until I was writing! Would never have tried her if Jenna hadn't asked. I'm in a very Seeking mood, now, actually.

If he weren't a twit and no-one wanted to kill him, he wouldn't be Rannon XD

And OH GOOD LORD, I KNOW @_@ It's pieces like this that make me look at it and just go ... "How? How on earth did that ever seem even remotely possible?" I think it was aliens. It's not my fault.

Thanks for reading, my precious *glomp* :D

[rosiphelee]

Hee! Lyssa writing!

I really felt for Simbelyne in this. You could see why she was frustrated with Lorannon from the moment he started talking.

*hugs Jeren* Bless him for trying to keep the peace when he hasn't got the faintest idea what's going on.

*grins at the frontline fodder comment* So heroically missing the point. That's a lovely bit of characterisation.

I love the way Simbelyne is operating under a completely different code of behaviour. It's interesting that a lot of her frustration with Lorannon seems to be based around the way he isn't following that code - she obviously isn't expecting it of Nuan and Jeren, but it bugs her that Lorannon isn't playing by her rules.

Lovely to see something from you again, m'dear :) I'm glad my prompt helped.

[ladylight]

The heroine of the story arrives! XD

Seriously, hon, thank you so much for that. I was starting to get a bit more stressed and silly about it than I should have done, so it's a wonderful relief. ^_^

I missed this bunch a lot. I've been editing a bit lately (gasp) while the feeling lasts, heh ...

And I think Simbelyne's showing a wee hint of her general elf > human predisposition there ... Lorannon looks like he's 'civilised folk', but doesn't act like it, and she probably secretly believes good conduct is a part of inborn Elven nature. ;) [Lorannon as Chomsky's new best friend? O_o]

*hug* Thanks for reading AND prompting, my sweet! Eeee!

[shanra]

You gotses a bite! Ee!

... Yes, I realise this will be half lost on me because you haven't rewritten me the story and I refuse to read the older chapters.

The landscape was flat, utterly flat. Not flat as duneless foreign lands were wont to be <- I love that line. I love how the repetition works and how it sounds. Bit like horse hooves beating on a dusty road, billowing up little clouds as they walk.

She couldn't place anything overtly dangerous about the situation <- ah, but here the repetition of 'place' doesn't work. *hopes she's not scaring the muses off* 'Feel', 'sense', 'know'? One of those work?

"She's using Those Words again," Nuan moaned. "Can we go?" <- Poor, poor Nuan. Oh, re the Simbelyne speech. I know I haven't read 'Seeking', but I don't have a problem with it. It just makes her sound more... posh. It'd depend on how much contact she's had with people who speak casual Common and/or whether she switches between the two, depending on which society she's in. Just my two cents. But I just get the impression that she's a

[ladylight]

Nah, events aren't too clear to anyone who hasn't read 'Summoning' either (total number of current readers: me), so I don't reckon you've missed much except background ;)

Thanks for the picks, my sweet (scare my muses with those? never! kittens, maybe)! Regarding Simbelyne's speech, she's actually from a fairly isolated place and not in a profession where she'd be expected to study Common in any depth, but you can't be expected to know that at my wonderful editing pace XD I appreciate the insight from a bilingual, though.

Here I was thinking you were all luck, bravado and voice.
-- Er ... nope. Nope, definitely more than that. Lots going on up top here. Like you wouldn't believe. Yep. >_>

Mmm, convincing rebuttal - how about the 'cruel and weird' accusation?

Muahaha. I mean, no.

*hugs* Thanks for reading, my poppet ^_-

(Did I get to write more? Wait perhaps another ten minutes and I'll show you exactly what I wrote ... or, alternatively, back away and run NOW O_o)