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Thain  by Lindelea 2 Review(s)
BodkinReviewed Chapter: 9 on 8/13/2004
I think, secretly (although it's hardly a secret since I'm writing it here), I prefer the Bucca bits to the Pippin bits.

Poor Bucca, leading them all off to a very unlikely safety, and abandoning his new-born son to danger elsewhere. I do hope they survive.

(By the way: have you decided not to put the rest of the Where the Merlin Cries one on here? It's ages since there was a dose of that.)

Author Reply: Well, the Bucca bits are certainly more dramatic than the Pippin bits. I still don't know if we'll keep the two stories intertwined once they're finished, but my editor says to give it a try. It is a good exercise, and an interesting one, to try to relate the two this way, and still make the story as a whole integrated and coherent (want to say "comprendable" but don't know if that's a word).

To answer the parenthetical question: No, Merlin is still in the works. It just got shoved to the back burner while I try to rescue stories off of ffnet, which has announced another major hardware upgrade or some such next week. These announcements always make me nervous, and so I am trying to grag as much off ffnet as possible before the announced date, to have those stories archived in more than one place.

Thanks for commenting, and I'll move "Merlin" up in the list of priorities since you asked about it.

Connie B.Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 8/13/2004
So glad to see you writing on this one again.

The more I read, the more I like Bucca. I see a lot of the future Travelers in him. Guess that only makes sense since he's an ancestor to all three of them.

Now I'm looking forward to see what you have planned for young Pippin in the next chapter.

Thanks.

Connie.

Author Reply: Yes, it's been a bit slow, what with doing some research and working things out on a map, but I have enough for the next few Bucca chapters and at least another Pippin chapter.

If I get the time to write you'll see them soon. (It takes no time at all, comparatively, to put in my editor's changes and post an edited chapter of an old story, which is why you're seeing more of those by comparison to new chapters of stories under construction.)

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