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I think @weinerdog hit the proverbial nail on the head, this offering of Geron's is one of his best yet. As much as I love the Charlie Boone, The Doorways, Thrift Shop Nation or the Road series, this was a masterclass in story telling and wordsmithing...and on it's own, it stands as an equal to any of his previous works. And I for one, am waiting impatiently, patiently for the further adventures of Jamie and the gang. Like @Jim Fraser, I look forward to Snave being restored to a human form, one that is uniquely his own...Someone has a whole Lodda time to ponder his fate, an eternity or more...While I would like to say it would drive him insane, we all know better...Is the Alien ship fully destroyed, along with the ring, and the AI Oracle unable to function? I would hate to think the both of them being somehow able to 'find' each other... Well, enough babbling from me, thank you Geron, thank you so very much for the time and effort you put forward to entertain us, your fans!!! Anxiously waiting on your next offering....

Like Travis, I get the feeling nothing is ever going to be the same...

It looks like the angels will have quite the following...

Ya think... The road to Perdition is paved with good intentions... “Jealous?” I asked. I was confused. Why would he be jealous of Blake? Roni shook her head sadly and replied, “I think he loves you, Seth.” I asked incredulously, “Are you serious? He can’t love me.” “He does,” she replied. “He told me last night he’s going to break up with Stacy because he doesn’t think he can come around your house anymore.” “Shit,” I muttered. So that is why he broke up with Stacy. Roni asked if he did, and I told her what I heard last night. I told her I was also afraid of what Stacy might do. She became more worried when I told her that Stacy suspected he was seeing another girl. Roni gripped my hand and squeezed it. “Be careful of your sister,” she warned. “She can deal with another girl, but I don’t think she’s going to take it if she finds out he’s gay and messing around with her brother.” “What do you think I’ve been worried about,” I replied. “I knew something like this would happen.” mm

I guess the wild card now is Craig, what will his temper lead to with disastrous consequences. This evil little village is worse than Peyton Place and I see nothing but, a sad confluence of misfits....

I gave up drinkling years ago, tho sometime my extended family would be easier to deal with ifin I did imbibe...but recipies like yours reminds me why I don't...😁

Hey now....the Korner Krew resembles that remark....

Noooooooooo

Craisins???

Poor Simon, from the frying pan to the fire, how many more indignities must he suffer before others bow down to him???

All I got is....

Hopefully Arnaud will have a bit more mtime after he sees the painting of St Michael, giving him a bit more time to get his affairs in order...nothing like old friends, wine and stories of good times...this is where precious memories are reinforced and shared!!!

Imminent danger would appear to be over for the moment...but will whatever was after the wisos be back again or others like it... I think it is time for Becket to have a serious conversation to find out what else would like to eat him or the ore wisps...

Not all is as it seems, there is danger and death for the unlucky/unwary...what else awaits Henry and he can't be the only 'earthling' on this planet...is Tomas off recruiting others from other worlds???

I don't think it added to their power so much as it vastly improved on how the electrums and magickons work. I believe with this knowledge Jamie and is cohorts will have the ability and tools necessary to confront both Lodda and the AI oricle From Ch 26 Kundun shook his head. "The only counsel I can give there is that the end of all roads must be earned by the journey. That time will come with your present travels, as well." He nodded, his gaze reassuring. "And I think more suddenly than you know, too. There will come a moment when you simply realize with great surprise that you have arrived at your goal. I only want that moment to end in your favor." Jamie laughed. "As do I." The older mage smiled then. "We have digressed from the matter at hand. I put to you that learning the why of magick is now your principal goal. Discover why magick exists at all, and you may learn the ultimate answer to how to manage it."

I had to come back to this as herein is the nexus as it were...still have to do some rereading in the morning... But here, in the system of this star, a most unique occurrence had come about. This star - their star - inhabited a place in their own universe that was exactly in the same place as a star in one of the many nether universes that occupied the same place, in some other space. And because these two stars shared forces in the same place, a...tunnel?...had been opened between the two universes within the heart of each star, places of such intense energies and fabulously twisting tensions, as to be unimaginable to the mind of someone born of the comparably sedate plains of a mere planet This tunnel allowed magickons to move from a universe of the nether into their own, there to be radiated outward with the powerful and energetic winds their own star exhaled. Jamie's world was bathed in magickons, literally submersed in them. Humans had come to this system totally unaware of this amazing chance occurrence, because magickons were not a thing they knew, or understood, or could measure. The life that had been born of their world before the arrival of humans was raised in this sea of strange forces, but humans did not know them. So magickons had come to know them, and had changed them over time into a form of life that could interact with both universes, and so had come to harness a new power born of another reality altogether. Magick.

Amen brother, I think I need to reread the past couple as well!!

Much to learn and it isn't as easy as it would seem!

Well deserved and congratulations...

Another thought crossed my mind whilst hiking in the 90+ degree heat and humidity today...What is Flitch's actual role in all of this??? We know he's from another world based on previous conversations, that he's unable to directly come in contact with Jamie or anyone else because of an explosive reaction...could Flitch be from one of the worlds that sealed Jamie's planet off from the rest of the universe?? The more I think about it, I am very sure that Flitch isn't a passive bystander, more akin to a observer reporting on recent developments. This then leads me to wonder, that once this is all over, one way or another...with a lodda help, speaking of which...does Lodda have a sister called Lotta? But I digress...as noted before, Pandora's box has been opened, how does everything get put back in the box...is this what Thorvil and the Council at Arthros have been working on???

I sense that because of what other worlds did to this planet that someone is planning a whole lodda retribution on those otherworldly planets...

Maybe a spark of hope??? Note to self: next time, try that with less water. Thankful to be alive, the shock of what happened didn’t hit him until he was curled in bed trying to fall asleep. These powers aren’t toys. I could have hurt myself or Jenny. I could have died today. And for these reasons, I must master them.

I have to imagine that St Vincent wasn't in the dark about Granger and Daventry's orders to leave his ship...I may be wrong, but something else is also an irritant...

Sounds like an episode of...

Danger Will Robinson, er Jamie...danger...