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  1. Topher Lydon
    "We did not trigger the chronological fracture," Hollis said, his voice terrifyingly calm, projecting the absolute, uncompromising authority of a man who had faced down warlords and cosmic horrors. He sat completely rigid against the bindings. "We are an exploration vessel. We came to offer assistance." "Lies," the alien commander spat, his scarred face twisting with revulsion. "You are Terrans. You are a plague of interference. You shattered our world, and now you hover over the ruins lik
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    Ashworth Hall has slipped into ruin, doing the Maths Edward is about 25000 - 30000 pounds in debt. A debt that runs about fifty times the income from that an estate in this condition would bring in through it's ruin. Even with the best intentions, the debt his father left him is catastrophic.
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    Home and Hearth Lord Edward is learning the cost of that title Good Morning
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    The journey out of London had been a blur of cold, mud, and the bone-deep, soul-hollowing exhaustion of a man who had stopped sleeping three days earlier. The hired carriage rattled violently over the deeply rutted roads, the wooden wheels slamming into potholes hidden beneath the freezing slush, sending jarring shocks up through the thin leather squabs. Edward sat rigid in the gloom, his eyes burning with fatigue, watching the man he loved slip further and further away. Jonas had not spok
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    Park left standing holding a pink sea shell and a tear. We all know Guy's his sweetheart.
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    Glorious Pillow Raiding!
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    Not so easy
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    The transition from the blinding, sterile white lines of warp travel to the cold, static void of real-space was violent enough to rattle the teeth in Daniel Hollis’s skull. The USS Zodiac-A dropped out of faster-than-light travel with a bone-jarring shudder that tested the absolute limits of the brand-new inertial dampening field. On the bridge, the thirty cadets were thrown hard against their freshly unwrapped consoles. Sirens immediately began to wail—not the proximity alarms of the Sp
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    Edward has found himself the most dangerous thing to an eccentric like Amelia, Interesting. She, herself is a fascinating non-conformist. Refusing marriage, keeping herself out of the traps of the Ton. She often wore men's clothes, rumoured to have a child out of wedlock. Possibly a Lesbian (but as the classification did not exist in the 1740's was just "affectionate" to her female companions) She is one of the few people that were untouchable in that era. Even her Nephew George III would routinely be scolded by her later in life. Most importantly, she was no one's fool, had a spy network that was second to none, and guarded her father closely.
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    Interesting fact about the highly intelligent, and very dangerous Henry Fielding, the Magistrate. He wrote Tom Thumb. He also wrote Tom Jones, as well as Amelia Often credited as the father of the Modern Novel.
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    Morning
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    The next few days were a slow, agonizing descent into a suffocating dark. The physical bruises on Jonas's face began to heal with the stubborn, resilient efficiency of a body accustomed to violence, the swollen, mottled purple flesh turning a sickly, jaundiced yellow-green across his cheekbone and jaw. But the psychological wounds were deepening, festering in the quiet damp of the boarding house room. He stopped going out to the streets. He stopped checking the window. He barely ate the mea
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    110 years of blockage has to go somewhere
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    A lot of dysentery in that era. Cholera as well.
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    Jonas has been through hell. Culloden followed by his imprisonment and subsequent commitment to Bedlam. The beating served to put him right back into his trauma. The fortunate thing is that he has someone who loves him this time. Who isn't about to let him down.
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    Melvin definitely takes after his dad rather than his mom.
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    Hollis woke to the sharp, distinct, utterly infuriating sound of heavy-gauge industrial plastic crinkling beneath his weight, accompanied immediately by the agonizing, rhythmic, blinding pounding of his own skull. He didn't open his eyes at first. He simply lay there in the absolute dark of his own fractured consciousness, his breathing shallow, tight, and erratic, desperately trying to piece together the violently fragmented puzzle of the last hour. He remembered the deafening, ozone-scen
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    Funnilly, while researching on this one (reading some of the literature written by actual highwaymen circa 1650.) I had an idea for Darien Haskall and the second heir to the Silver Boar book (which suffers similar pacing issues to this one) and might *might* have cracked where I was going wrong (as these two books were written at or around the same time) So Let me perculate on my mistakes. (I think it had something to do with going from a highly structured war epic (the Crusades) into something a bit more traditional and I needed to slow down.
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    I am working hard on this story. My initial draft suffered massively from pacing issues. I am slowing down, examining the impact of things, and writing a lot of new material to set this story into a much stronger work
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    That's one way to leave the Army Will is now part of their world
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    The pattern held for six weeks. Six weeks of Jonas bleeding the streets, and Edward bleeding the tables. Six weeks of coming home to the damp, suffocating room at Mrs. Higgins’s boarding house, stripping off the stink of the London night, splitting the money, and counting the silver into the three battered tin cans. It was a rhythm built on exhaustion, necessity, and a quiet, terrifying desperation. Every morning, they woke with the taste of coal smoke and fear in their mouths. Every night
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    As always, as a writer, I am always so happy to see that people read and enjoy these stories. Thank you so much
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    I mean Karen's still Captain of the Texas... should show how stable it all is.
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