Topher Lydon

I kinda want to get one for my house. We all know Peter's going to mount that to his wall as a warning to all comers that he may be short, he may have the body of a 12 year old, and look like an altar-boy with a crippling case of Giant Blue Eyes, but he's vicious when he needs to be.

Hey at least he admits he's got rage issues, and has Therapy

The pamphlet was creased from being folded and refolded, the paper soft at the edges like someone had been worrying it for days. Peter found it in the back of Jason's nightstand drawer, tucked beneath a worn copy of The Catcher in the Rye and a tangle of charging cables. He'd been looking for Jason's spare house key, the one he always forgot, the one Peter had been asking him about for weeks. Instead, his fingers closed around glossy cardstock Finding Freedom: A Guide to Wholeness. P

Flynn's been written, consistently, as one of those guys who helps people. Who followed the spirit of the law, and didn't persecute with it. It felt like a natural extension of that to have the people who knew him step in.

Ha I get # signs with stuff behind it.

oh he can speak and dreamwalk to Andy, but that, I feel, didn't explain where Andy was... Kevin, handilly, provided the rest of the information. Funny fact, you can't read in dream states. Pick up a book the next time you dream and try to read it... so my logic even if Esca could see something, say an envelope with an address in the dream, it would not translate... just my take on it.

Goes to show how much life and light Lucas brings into Andy's world. Esca doesn't stand a chance when faced with a very determined son-in-law with a 1000-watt smile and a demented streak.

Families do have different ways of dealing with things, some might call the police and have you brought home, others might Raise the entirety of Eastern Europe with Tanks and Flamethrowers. Depends on how pissed Daddy is.

Jędrzej was a very naughty Childe, running off like that. It was only right that his father fetched him home.

I really enjoy this, and it deserves more exposure. Keep it up

Daddy knows best.

16 The vibrations started long before the screaming did. It was a low, subsonic tremor that traveled through the ancient bedrock of the Carpathian foothills, creeping up through the foundations of the castle and into the soles of Andy’s boots. It was a mechanical rhythm, heavy and relentless, a synchronized grinding of steel treads and heavy diesel engines. Panzer tanks. They were still miles away, navigating the winding, treacherous mountain passes, but Andy’s preternatural senses co

Exactly, Will grew up around the Major. He knows what he sees. I think in one of the chronologically later books, Recourse, he spots it again and calls Andrew on it, but that time he figures it out. Will, by that point, is more astute at what Andrew is hiding.

cool, I do worry sometimes that I am too opaque. This book was a bit difficult to write. The balance has been hard to find, and being set on guide rails for what the characters can and cannot know/do per established lore and Continuity is ... yeah. I feel sorry for Star Wars/Trek/Who writers who have to be tied in knots by so much... established lore. The Will not knowing about CSIS for another three years is... hard. It does make Will seem like a moron at points. A conceit of the situation, I am doing my best to try to keep things on track. Peter, for example, is a really hard character. When writing the original few books, Peter didn't exist. So working him in, leaves a glaring amount of continuity errors that ALMOST have me wishing I can go give an editorial pass over the older books. Just to make everything more consistent.

I have realized I am breaking one of my big rules. Explaining out of text what should be explained in the book. Thank you for the reminder to do better.

I was debating if I should write a scene with Darius and the assassination... I haven't yet. Just to close that loop. Darius I also need to show, Works at GS&P but he is also Merrick's right hand... it's a bit murky and could do with a bit of clarification. (It's still a bit WIP as I am cleaning up some plot holes at the moment)

Good men can still break the law if they're frightened. To Will, Andrew's carrying a gun because of the Northern Cross. After all they did to him in the Valley, it is logical for Will to assume this. And yes carrying a handgun without special permission would be a career ender, Will has to be wondering at the risk he thinks Andrew is taking. But again, Will saw what Denton did to Jason, the fear that sent Peter to live with him. I don't think it's that much of a stretch for Will to believe Andrew is traumatized afterwards.

This book also gives me a chance to show how formidable Robert Avery is, he knows what Gable is doing. He can see the net, and teaching Will to spot it will help Will later in his life when he enters politics. Avery is no fool, and Gable as well as Merrick, underestimate him at their own peril.

The implication is Robert Gable orchestrated something to force Avery to hire his firm in a crisis. Torys LLP collapsing was the perfect catalyst for GS&P to show it's the right solution to Avery Woods problems.

Except Will doesn't know that. So this is his perpective, the gun is there, guns are illegal, ergo Andrew is breaking the law. The idea that Andrew is CSIS would never even enter his head.

We knew what Andrew has to do will eventually conflict with what he wants. Will is too honest to handle the truth of Andrew's world, and they simply aren't at a point where they've reached an understanding. We know they do get there, just takes a couple more years. It should be noted that handguns were illegal in Canada at the time. The fact that Andrew has one, Will's perception of it would be that Andrew is breaking the law in owning it. He's wrong, but given that he only has what he can see to go on, he's leaping to conclusions.

Andrew Highmore, Junior Associate, GS&P Dug out an old image I had on file.

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