It's been so long since I posted anything substatial that I wanted to make a decent job of it. I do feel quite guilty at my low participation, but I now have a 2-hour commute via London twice a day, and I am in no state to write in the evenings.




In all fairness, it's not Vizh's fault. I made sure that Bastet stressed both sides of the coin, but one thing I forgot in the rush to get things finished was to have Dancer doing the same thing.




The original version had him staying the night, but being kept awake, convinced that there was always at lesst one mouse, paws on the cage bars, staring at him with its unblinking eyes. I scrubbed that as it was a little too creepy for that stage in the story.

On the other hand, the two phone calls with her mothers almost wrote themselves. The amusing part, of course, is that in the first call, he is obviously getting all the missing parts wrong.




I am not a great cat fan myself - nor am I particularly in to pets. However I thought the cat scene(s) were rather bittersweet, and a wonderful way to display Magweed's character.




The Sarah theme was actually a last minute decision. I needed a way to swap from the first person perspective so I could have a discusseion between Sarah and Miiri, and I had to deal with a section that had to be heavily dialogue to work. The idea of doing it as a Dancer insert occured to me just before I wrote it. And the moment I thought of it, it just seemed so right.

I think that being Dancer involves seeing all the probabilities. She knows that she can't force love, but I think she would be prepared to give a good guy (or girl) a second chance, especially where the story just happened to have another girl who has gone home after a traumatic experience.

It is interesting to compare this scene with the way the Hooded Hood would have acted. He would have had multiple contingencies set up (naturally) to make sure he could force them together.




It's a little harder as I am a little more disconnected from the board these days. On the other hand, that makes the future stories more attractive, since we can always ignore them if the future doesn't work that way.