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Episode 8 of Sergeant Vardan and her patrol during the Pargunese invasion.

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Episode 7 of Sergeant Vardan and her patrol during the Pargunese invasion.

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Episode 6 of Sergeant Vardan and her patrol during the Pargunese invasion.

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Episode 5 of Sergeant Vardan and her patrol during the Pargunese invasion.

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Episode 4 of Sergeant Vardan and her patrol during the Pargunese invasion.

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Continuing the story of Sergeant Vardan and her patrol.

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Continuing the story of Sergeant Vardan and her patrol of Halverics in northern Lyonya after the Pargunese released scathefire.

Northern Lyonya is, like most of Lyonya, forested country ranging from some swampy forest near the Honnorgat and along some of its tributaries, to forested uplands with rocky outcrops.    Although dominated by deciduous trees for the most part, there are some stands of conifers (and isolated conifers throughout).  Pargun, north of the river, has fewer deciduous and more coniferous trees.  Blackwood, the best wood for longbows on that world,  grows only south of the river.

In winter, with the leaves fallen,  the forest may seem easier to navigate,  harder to hide in…but not to its natives. Read the rest of this entry »

A Christmas present snippet that is not a spoiler for Echoes of Betrayal, though it was originally intended to be part of that book…but grew out of balance.     It actually “happened”  in Kings of the North,  during the early part of the Pargunese attack on Lyonya.   You will meet Sergeant Vardan in Echoes, a few chapters in…but her viewpoint of what she and her patrol had gone through isn’t given there. This is from her backstory, and not found anywhere but here.

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Some of you know the nonsense song, and some of you don’t, but in terms of finishing this book…I found the elusive duplication, removed the elusive duplication, put the single copy in a better place in the sequence, and…then found the elusive sequence gap that I knew was in there somewhere and filled it.   Progress returned to normal for a time, with only top-level fine-polishing to do.

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So…a week ago I was just coming home from the dress rehearsal for Messiah, feeling better about it than I had at the first rehearsal with GuestConductor.  He had slowed fractionally at the first orchestra rehearsal on Sunday night, when the orchestra also had some problems…and we’d left just as the soloists were starting their rehearsal.  Dress rehearsal was pretty much straight through, with soloists in their order, and there was another fractional slowing.  Not quite enough, and the tempo was still not steady through some of the faster choruses (speeding up as we went along.)  But by this time we had figured out what to do about it–thanks to the tools that UsualConductor had given us over the previous rehearsals (and, in my case, the years of singing under him and taking voice lessons from him.)

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