Horngard I\u00a0 went off yesterday to my agent, via Earthlink Webmail, since the handshake between Earthlink and Thunderbird is still, apparently shaky.\u00a0 I’m receiving mail, but the sending has yet to have a confirmed arrival.\u00a0 Earthink’s Webmail didn’t even hiccup when the full book file went in, and reported it in its “sent” file.\u00a0 Agent has notified arrival but then he doesn’t if he’s doing something else.<\/p>\n
I have already, this morning, looked over my notes & text (from much earlier in the year) for Horngard II, and the truncated ending from Horngard I , some of which will go into II, but not all.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s much cooler, and bright with an almost cloudless sky, still in the mid-70sF at 11 am (wow!)\u00a0 so I have doors open for fresh air.\u00a0\u00a0 I realized when I took my meds this morning that I had *skipped* a couple of days, probably due to having a house guest and being distracted, or that’s my excuse.<\/p>\n
Y’all deserve a snippet.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe two snippets.\u00a0\u00a0 Early, middle, and late, let’s say<\/p>\n
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Aesil M’dierra, having lunch in The Golden Fish<\/em> in Valdaire, remembering a childhood incident:<\/p>\n Rainclouds low over the citadel, hiding all but the bases of the two peaks that gave the place its name.\u00a0 Cold rain, slippery rock, then the warmth of the great entrance chamber, a polished bronze dragon statue, gold leaf that had once covered it almost worn away.\u00a0 A man in yellow robes lifting the statue’s tail, the mouth opening, emitting first a puff of smoke and then warm red tongue sliding out for her to touch with her own….<\/p>\n She pushed memory aside with an effort.<\/p>\n …………………………………………………………………………………………………..<\/p>\n Juris Marrakai en route to Marrakai’s country estate, escorted by Royal Guard<\/p>\n “But–where do you turn for the house?”<\/p>\n “I’ll go; I can show them.\u00a0 You go straight ahead.\u00a0 Give me some men!”<\/p>\n “But we’re supposed to protect you<\/u>!”<\/p>\n “My sisters<\/u>!”\u00a0 With that, Juris spurred back down the column for the crossroad, and Fandosson yelled for half the troop to follow Juris, then spurred ahead.<\/p>\n …………………………………………………………………………………………………<\/p>\n Meddthal Andressat, in Cha (south of Pliuni)\u00a0 representing Count Andressat.\u00a0 Andressat has claimed the South Marches since Siniava’s War.<\/p>\n The courier’s head fell forward like a puppet with cut strings.\u00a0 Dead.\u00a0 Meddthal felt he’d been dipped in ice water.\u00a0 He was dragonkin, this was Dragon’s business, but Dragon–he touched his amulet and it lay cold on his chest.\u00a0 He did not know where Dragon was.<\/p>\n “I will send word,” he said to his captain.\u00a0 “Burn his clothes, just in case.\u00a0 And bury him deep.”<\/p>\n He sent a courier north, that very hour, hoping it was not too late.<\/p>\n ……………………………………………………………………………………………..<\/p>\n Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Horngard I\u00a0 went off yesterday to my agent, via Earthlink Webmail, since the handshake between Earthlink and Thunderbird is still, apparently shaky.\u00a0 I’m receiving mail, but the sending has yet to have a confirmed arrival.\u00a0 Earthink’s Webmail didn’t even hiccup when the full book file went in, and reported it in its “sent” file.\u00a0 Agent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,132,115,5,1],"tags":[108,28,107],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-crossposted-universes-blog","category-snippet","category-the-writing-life","category-uncategorized","tag-background","tag-snippet","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036"}],"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=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3037,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}