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110 words to finish the Scrooby scene, and oh my great goodness but my gut is fed up with Muses punching it!  It all makes sense now - where the Curse fits in retrospectively, the Tiger's battle-fits, the wicked trick Luke used to  beat the unbeatable cavalry... and the reason it worked so well...

Luke's long-planned Moment of Awesome in this chapter wasn't in his plan after all.  He wasn't keeping anything from anybody (which is one bit of plotty awkwardness out of the way).  It's his desperate and new-minted answer to the Curse, which otherwise has him caught coming and going.  And his opponent's response remains a forced move: there's only one thing this Earl can possibly do about it...

...Oh more goodness.  All those chapters back, the Big Bad ran away from the Tiger for a reason.  And it wasn't the reason I thought.

The Big Bad, for a little while, is laughing at me like a wildfire.

I love it when a book comes together.  Even if I hate the redrafting it sticks me with!


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Chapter 14 is flowing in such turbulence that I can't even wait to sort out the complex manoeuvring of the Langdale insurgency. It's write in any order - the things I know I'll have to kick myself in the head if I leave them to stagnate and start smelling. Throw away or rework the ones that turn out not to have happened, afterwards.

I finally got into Fiery Younger Sister's head at a point that was actually important. Oh dear!

In the original plan, she was a precociously and preternaturally good fighter, adolescently bloodthirsty in any cause she thought good, and champing at the bit for her Great Just War. Since she is a hero at heart rather than the soldier she tries to be, I thought - along with the person who arranged to send her to the front where the nastiness is apt to be concentrated - that she would be pretty well cured of the war-fever after tasting the truth of it.

Turns out, under stress-testing, that she is a rather different hero at heart than the one of my too-sentimental imaginings.

Top o' the morning to you now, Miss Cúchullain!

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