If you ever read Eirika’s Story, you’ll note some key differences here, mostly because this is the bit that I’m planning to rewrite. Really? Eirika dragging Seth off during a battle for some kisses? Wow. That’s just dumb. So that’s gone now. I think I am better at writing dialogue than I was five years ago (especially when I’m not using the stilted stuff from the game) and trying to think in first person view gives a slightly better set of descriptions than thinking in top-down map view. (Partly why The Tactician and the Jewel worked out so well? Because I had no maps to rely on?)

Innes is reminding me of Hrulash. I talk so much, myself, because I’m always thinking. (Whether I’m thinking about anything useful or intelligent is up for debate. :3 ) But so my characters have a lot of things to say. But when they don’t say a lot, like Hrulash – or Innes – they end up saying it inside their heads. (Which Yllamse noticed, and nailed in her recent Rifted Riders fic. 😀 ) I guess I have a thing for quiet, intelligent, snarky guys? Straight-laced-ness is optional, though. : )

One more bit, and it’s going to be (finally) 100% Innes/Syrene-y. 😀

This is some excellent writing music. Almost an hour of Baroque organ music! : D And it’s awesome organ music! It’s variations on a hexachord by Pachelbel, which I believe means that the theme is on a ground bass six chords long? Anyway, Pachelbel’s pretty inventive, if he draws it out for 48.5 minutes of this beautiful ornate… music (complete with varied registrations in this recording) on the same theme. 😀