Chapter 14 Now Available on My Website

[Bob Schroeck]

Jeanne Hedge wrote:

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I was wondering what was going to come of the diamond in Lisa's keeping

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You didn't think I'd specifically mention it a couple times in the last few chapters if it weren't going to show up again, now do you?

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My favorite of those in this chapter was the conversation between Linna and Sylia near the end. Sylia certainly must have been feeling low to be that forthcoming in that setting ("sister" or not).

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Some of that, yes. She's not at the lowest point in her life -- in fact, resolving the Jennifer situation is a big emotional plus for her -- but she has her guard down, which doesn't happen very often. Her guard's down, she's feeling close to the others (despite her typical physical standoffishness), and the whole framing of the Jennifer affair has left her -- at that moment -- with a low tolerance for lies and lies-by-omission. Linna got her at just the right time; five or ten minutes either way and Sylia would have been her same old self, or a reasonable facsimile thereof.


-- Bob
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"Flan on!" -- The battlecry of the Human Dessert