Well, there’s a chapter of Ephraim’s Story. Four more to go? Hoping to get finished this week. Shouldn’t be too hard now that I’ve found a suitable source of writing music (AC2 OST, whoo). For some reason, in this chapter and the corresponding chapter of Eirika’s Story, Ephraim is the introspective one, and Eirika is the one who notices the battle. Although… in Eirika’s Story, it’s a pretty stupid battle, based on the fact that all my chars were wildly overpowered compared to the enemy grunt troops. I should rewrite that. But I like Ephraim’s introspection, so I’ll probably just leave it.

While going over this, I found two places in the corresponding chapter of Eirika’s Story where I used reflexives incorrectly. This is terribly embarrassing to me, as reflexives are currently a peeve of him when used incorrectly. To sum up: a reflexive pronoun (myself, itself, themselves) is a pronoun used as a direct object of a verb that is acted by and upon the subject. E.g. It cleaned itself. Any other use of a pronoun ending in ‘-self’ is incorrect, but many people don’t know that. That’s why you frequently hear people saying things like “If you have any questions, just ask (Joe or) myself”, unaware that this doesn’t make them sound more formal or intelligent. In fact, it just makes them sound grammatically ignorant. Equally unfortuantely, this doesn’t bother anyone except grammer nazis/paladins. (The correct form would be “…just ask (Joe or) me.” It sounds more informal, but it’s actually not, because it’s correct.)

So anyway, I fixed them. :3