Topher Lydon
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I needed it to feel like a violation. It's the only way that Theo would allow Elias to put a badge back on. I mean Theo has a point, Elias is a mess, he's suffering long term injuries down his left side. His hip from the final battle with Cobb, the side where he was shot by Rourke, and the hand burned in the wagon fire. He's not the rubber ball of doom that he was in the last one. Strapping on a gun, pinning on a badge would have real consequences that Theo is terrified of. Elias isn't known for going easy on himself when he's fighting one of his wars. So the justification had to be visceral.
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For those that don't know, the Dominion Police along with the North West Mounted Police merged to become the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. We're a little early for Red Serge jackets and campaign hats. But they still "Always got their man"
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Good morning folks Things are not right, down on the farm. And sanctuaries can be stolen by the determined. However Elias Sawyer knows what he needs to do:
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Chapter 4: The Breaking Point The Harding Farm. Early February, 1885. The silence before dawn wasn't peaceful; it was heavy. A physical weight, pressing down on the farmhouse roof like a wet wool blanket, muffling the world. It was the kind of quiet that felt staged, a held breath before a scream. The cold had teeth this morning, biting through the chinks in the log walls, a dry, predatory cold that sought the marrow. Elias Sawyer sat in the kitchen, a stoneware cup of cold
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Unfortunately Enrico suffers from the age old "Had he done nothing..." His plan backfires on him, badly
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Their story needed just a bit more to be complete
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Denton's orders -> West's Assault -> Jason's testimony -> Brad's imprisonment -> Jason's beating -> Brad's confession -> Denton's Freedom There is a certain pig farmer with his own score to settle with Denton Jensen.
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Gotta keep ya guessin'. Some people still due what's coming to them. Everyone gets their due in this one.
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Tarquin did it
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It was, also I believe Charles Levesque ALSO recommended the spot for an ambush as well. It's is a deadzone, no cell signal, no radio signal. Merrick knew Andrew was at the event at the house. Denton's been patiently waiting weeks for an opportunity at Andrew, it's implied that Andrew has wandered right into the trap this particular time, he was distracted, thinking about what he saw at Merrick Manor. Denton getting lucky, or Hank was following him and called ahead. Both are possible.
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Will and Andrew eventually develop an agreement with their lives. The "Don't ask" Rule, wherein: Will will never ask Andrew a question that would put Andrew in a position to lie to him. It works for them.... till it inevitably doesn't. There is only so long that two men can lie by omission to each other. Peter, wisely, considers such a rule Bullshit. This the West/Peter confront, while Andrew/Will avoid trope that defines the two core relationships of all these books.
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foundational in fact
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ALSO: F.U.C.K. Denton!
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My vote's on Timmy, that boy's got hidden talents. I mean if you are going to attack that farm, the railroad might want to bring a few more men. Between those four, and Jack, the railroad is hopelessly out matched.
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Three Chapters remaining. Brick MacReady is still out there, as is Merrick. And Andrew's crossed a line. Will must never know.
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I am quite enjoying this soundtrack, while I edit chapters, so I figured I'd share the one that's on right now:
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He was given no choice, but he did what he needed to. The lawyer died, the Dark Sovereign born.
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Eeek that's me misreading the clock, sorry this one's an hour early. um... so, yes. Rust, blood, and lead. Everything has an end
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Chapter 15: The Hollow The silence inside the MULE’s brushed-aluminum cabin was a thin, fragile membrane, and beneath it roared a static of dismantled certainties. Andrew drove mechanically, his hands at ten and two on the steering wheel, his knuckles pale under the dashboard’s green glow. The fine charcoal wool of Will’s suit jacket was a prison against his skin, still carrying the phantom scents of the gala—perfume, champagne, beeswax—overlaid now with the cold, metallic smell of his own
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i genuinely love this one myself. It was the first I wrote that wasn't directly Will and Andrew. I wanted to explore something new. (I'd done Return of the Sun a few years before this, and the Falcon Banner was being written at the same time as this... so I needed a break from the same characters. And West evolved. Ha I think the first chapter I wrote was the one where he goes out on his own, gets the map and gets... disasterously wrong ideas about what a bathhouse was. He kind of went from there. He was a bit asexual for a while, not really ever being the kind of character that chased it. HOPELESSLY romantic . And Peter just... needed someone that suited him, that he could earn and who would WIN him over. Kind of the Anti-high school romance.
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One thing about those two that endures through the books, they never lie to each other. Will and Andrew avoid, Peter and West confront. Unless you count forgetting to mention Jason Jensen for twenty odd years... I mean... that's not a lie if you just plumb forgot to tell him, right? RIGHT? :: grins :: West is NEVER going to let Peter live that one down.
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Hi, welcome back to the fun. Glad to share it.
