Location:\u00a0 in Aarenis, within several days’ march of Cortes Vonja.\u00a0 Situation: night after a frustrating day of marching, barely evading an ambush, more marching.<\/p>\n
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…his assailant lay dead on the ground.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was a small, wiry man in short trousers, barefooted–his soles horny as goats’ hooves–his hair in a curious braid, stiff with something he’d smeared on it.\u00a0 On a thong around his neck was a medallion with a design Arcolin did not recognize.<\/p>\n
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This is part of an incident added to the part cut off from what is now Oath of Fealty<\/em> and will be in the second volume of the group.\u00a0\u00a0 It helps fill in what had been a sketchy way to cover some weeks.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Although the forward part of the plot of the second book is moving, there’s fill-in to be done, because I was compressing the last 55,000 words when I hoped to squeeze it all into that first volume.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was packed tight–too tight, too much left out.\u00a0 This is putting some juice back in.<\/p>\n It was also one of those surprises, a bit of plot-stuff I didn’t expect.\u00a0\u00a0 It was so unexpected I had to check with a couple of people to see if the whole situation was feasible.\u00a0 And it is.<\/p>\n Of course, the really interesting thing is\u00a0 not a sailor in a tree, but who put the sailor in the tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Location:\u00a0 in Aarenis, within several days’ march of Cortes Vonja.\u00a0 Situation: night after a frustrating day of marching, barely evading an ambush, more marching. ……………………….. …his assailant lay dead on the ground.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was a small, wiry man in short trousers, barefooted–his soles horny as goats’ hooves–his hair in a curious braid, stiff with something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28,39],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contents","tag-snippet","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}