Topher Lydon

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER Location: Rideau Hall, Ottawa. The "Sunroom" (Converted Morning Room). Time: Early May 2023. 09:00 EST. Status: The Rebranding. Rideau Hall was no longer just a prison; it was a soundstage for a surrender it refused to call by its name. The historic Morning Room, with its east-facing windows that had once illuminated quiet breakfasts and hushed political deals, had been violated. The elegant, muted wallpaper was now backdrop to a garish invasion.

Garrett, Garrett never changes. I have such great fun writing his dialogue

Yep it's official, I love the Hickey clan! I am having FAR too much fun tonight.

I just have to say I love writing about this town. It's moments like this, where I turn around and a whole chapter of amusement and glee just appears out of nowhere... just because two books ago I wrote a throw away line about someone's job. I do, highly, recommend giving something like this a try if you ever write, it's highly rewarding.

So I've been writing out a scene as Lydia is combating the Merrick family in the country records office. Wrote a whole chapter out of complex Municipal jujitsu... form 14a sub c.... vs form 19a .... and I wrote this lovely records clerk named Janice... gave her her own little back story and a cat... And then I remembered... who... is the actual records clerk of Merrickville. I now have to... extensively rewrite Aunt Jenny in to the chapter... the Merrick's are doomed.

Just remember, Lydia's Dad is Clovis. And Clovis won't take kindly to a monster that close to his family. just saying, I am *still* Toying with the idea of Merrickville old boys dealing with it because it's what they do to these type of "untouchable" monsters.

Yeah I wrote off for a quote on one, and the guy was really polite and gave me a figure of between 75 and 150 K so yeah it's not going to be cheap, it's one hell of a job and will keep Finn busy quite a while.

smothered by the weight of his own ego.

Finn and Orel The more I write of this story, the more redemptive it is. Now the truth is known, things can start to change as they face it.

It's not said here, but Jason saved West by fetching Highmore. Just, before you judge our lost little Baptist lad too harshly, he did the right thing in the end.

Will is Peter's father figure in the books, but West's his Papi

Chapter Three: The Ghost in the Rain The Porcelain Shell Finn The bathtub was the only safe place in the house. An old cast-iron clawfoot, its enamel stained with age. Finn lay curled in its dry, cold belly, a pillow jammed against the faucet. He wasn’t hiding. He was containing. The silence of Walter’s empty house wasn’t empty at all. It was a gallery of echoes. The dinner had cracked him open. Seeing Orel’s flinch, the way he folded into himself like a paper doll

Orel man, taking weird and wearing it proudly:

Well, Orel is a powerful little mage, and his spells are binding

So someone asked how Andrew is just accepted as an officer by those that know who he really is. Canada has a combined ranking system. Meaning all Officers from the military branches, Security services and police forces hold Commissions. Should a crisis arise, who is in charge is known off of this system. As Director General of CSIS Andrew is the highest ranking "Officer" on the Rock. As such, by default, he is commander of the Free Canada forces. The rank he is using is a cover identity supported by the Royal Navy (Who firmly consider Andrew one of their own after Breach), the acting Commodore title is to reaffirm this authority. Since both the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy attain their authority from King Charles III, it is the King, ultimately, who grants the Commissions. Ergo, Andrew is in Command and a Commodore. Hope that clears it up, least for the book purposes.

Next, Will defies the Overlords, and sends a message of defiance to every Canadian. It begins.

Good morning folks! Newfoundland, the last outpost

CHAPTER SIX: THE FORTRESS ROCK Location: The Crow’s Nest Officers’ Club, St. John’s, Newfoundland. Time: Late April 2023. 17:00 Local Time. Status: The Last Dominion. St. John’s did not look like a city under siege; it looked like a city that had decided the rest of the continent could go to hell, and it was going to have a drink while it waited. It was a city built on cod bones and stubbornness, huddled on a rock that spent half the year battling the North Atlantic for the right to exi

:: oh no Some one figured out my time travelling car motiff! :: shhhhh