Vinnie has made a number of calls that have erred on the side of compassion. Remember that he was brpught up in an environment where that was regarded as weakness.

In a medical setting, not undertaking a procedure because it might hurt the parient is the wrong thing. In a military one, being afraid to lose troops can lead to losing a war. Vinnie sometimes doesn't have the ruthlessness required of a sorcerer supreme - and he knows it.







She knows she was one Vinnie-decision and two seconds away for being killed by the enemy in a manner that foresight cannot avoid, a mass destruction event that wpould kill hundreds if not thousands to ensure she was dead.

Of course, events have moved on from then.













Time runs differently in the Many Coloured Lands. When we catch up with her in Chapter 16, six weeks has passed for her and she has been busy.




Teleportation is one of the least predictable means of travel in the Mythlands, easy to divert or to alter the travellers, so it is a last resort (after all, the place is all about quests and journies).

The Faerie Queene still has the upper hand. In many ways she is the Realm and therefore has godlike powers, but withing some narrative boundaries. Magweed's little group is the first assembly of powers able to offer her serious challenge for a long time (since the early days of Untold Tales and a villain called the King of Stories), but for all their power they are still the plucky outsider underdogs.

But the current wider circumstances of the changes to the Parodyverse are sufficiently worrying to avoid a real war. It would be like two people struggling to rule a burning house inside that house; so what we'll see are skirmishes, traps, and a cold war, not Lord of the Rings.




Noted.







Splendid.

By the way, because the reply thread is heading off the side of my non-widescreen monitor now, I'm having to scroll across to read every line of the body text of all replies. Is there any way to mitigate this?