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12/17/2019 c5 22Flint and Feather
The opening conversation between Cian and Lorcan goes a long way in showing their supportive ease with each other, as they reminisce being youths who were then just as interested in the mystery of locating the Gates Between Worlds.

(To comment on the author's notes, I'd like to read more of Lorcan's POV on certain Sidhe lifestyles, even if he might pussyfoot around the truths.) As they investigate the current enormous challenge, Cian directs especially able select followers to commit a useful banditry - and as the lord of his disadvantaged lower class House, he's seen it as righteously fitting to take valuables from the former High King's palace. It's satisfying to read of the mission's success, as I'm already rooting for the chief dragon!

The necessity of getting the torc fashioned could add to the delay, and there's a definite sense during discussions between Cian, Lorcan and Timuth, that their hopes are realized as thin, but doubts are being mostly held within, to keep up their courage and resolve.
11/21/2019 c4 Flint and Feather
I like your staging of Cian's assembly room within his feasting hall, with the focus area being the high table at the central hearth, and introduction to the personalities and functions of certain of the highlighted Sidhe court nobles.

Lorcan, as insider narrator, very usefully explains the long, slow process by which the lords of House Wyvern may progress into attaining the power of transforming themselves into full-fledged dragons. Cian's elderly archivist Timuth, is excited to study the spells possible to be learned from the secret journals of the wizard King Argentius. No one seriously argues against Cian's proposal, and it's interesting that the only person putting skeptical questions, is his mother. I get the general feeling that Cian's abilities are trusted, but the Court won't be alarmed if the escape plan doesn't come together. It seems a daunting long way to fruition. If Cian succeeds, he'll consider himself elevated to the status of High King.

What could go wrong?
11/7/2019 c3 Flint and Feather
Cian put forth a canny play by acting little impressed that Ravenna was willing to turn over an initial sampling of long-ago murdered King Argentius' grimoire. Were the Sidhe glad to see the end of Argentius, centuries ago?

There's spiky energy as Ravenna and Cian snipe at each other. He and Finn threaten future violence against each other's people, and Cian extracts Ravenna's excuse that the mortal females she had used, willingly allowed her to drain youth from them, with the result that she hadn't aged over four centuries. But that's only more of his needling, and Ravenna seems to tiredly concede, in that she hadn't come to parley for a contest of mutual blaming.

She seems sincere in surrendering to Cian, writings of powerful magic that she hasn't ever been able to interpret for herself and can't use? I wonder why she declares that Cian can succeed?
11/4/2019 c2 Flint and Feather
I'm admiring your descriptions of the guidance of the horses ridden by Finn, Cian and Lorcan, as those movements serve to express the men's arrogance and caution upon their meeting, and also provide shielding when Cian and Lorcan wish to have a private conversation away from Finn and Ravenna.

Also admired is your inclusion of historical terms such as 'demesne'.

The desperate bargain struck means that Ravenna wants Cian's help to take her people out of the mortal plane, and into the Otherworld? I sense that she's about to fall into a trap!
11/1/2019 c1 Flint and Feather
It's freshly interesting to read the viewpoint of Cian's under-lord brother; one of a number of his Sidhe circle previously not heard from. Though those present in their castle's great hall scene would seem to live comfortably enough, what Lorcan says of the long political history means that they can't be in control of the future they want - unless something changes. Ravenna's unexpected offer of parley may be that.

Still, even when it looks like the adversaries are fairly well acquainted with each other, this all carries a lot of mysteries, one of which is - who is always vulnerable to the various magics worked? Had High King Deaglan felt confident that the sweep of his murderous master spell would claim Ravenna, too? It would then seem that he had exhausted himself, if he couldn't defend his life against the power of her retaliatory iron plague. Not knowing how many human and non-human rulers Ravenna keeps down, it looks to me like she has the upper hand over all.

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