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So nice! can't wait to hear Callan pluck Davy Graham's Anji next week - or will he play it one day together with Chris? Like Paul and Ed Simon did in 68!? That'll be a treat!

While I was brought up in the ways of the Old School, even back then there were Mulcibers with more compassion and a better grasp of how to approach Erebi in such a quandary and emotional turmoil. They probably had either by intuition (and perhaps upbringing) or by observation and experience learned to use empathy and support to achieve their goals. But there always were - and are - they likes of William. Not necessarily mean spirited, some are just a bit full of themselves, some are truly not caring and some seem to think it just has to be done that way. Never asking, never questioning and not even knowing an answer to the question why they think emotional detachment or even cruelty might help them any..... While I softened considerably in my approach to new Erebi, I hope I never was a William What Micah has 'learned' remains unclear, like so many other important questions here. But he has made a resolution and is living a straight and honest life now it seems. It is the prerogative of an Author to cut off a story line at any point - even when questions and hints he himself had placed remain unresolved. Sometimes the spark just isn't there any more, the mindset doesn't fit the plot any longer, the interest wanders elsewhere, to explore new fantasies. For the reader though it's always a bitter pill to swallow, when coming to a point in a story where it seems a hasty retreat and a (cursory) bundling up of a few strands have been made. An effort to somehow close off a plot is better than just totally leave a story unfinished, sadly there plenty of such to be found at GA. I want to thank the Author here for a very touching and excellent written story. A fairly good insight into the world of Mulcibers and their wards may help a wider audience to understand this very special and tight knit community

getting into the swing....

sweet and lovely! It's CACCIATORE btw. drop the H. Otherwise kackatore gives a totally wrong connotation….wouldn't smell nice either!

A little firebrand that is....Asher sounds more like a profession or pastime than a name here...

Surely at the Sylvia Hotel! Old time charme, pleasant view and location! Lots of tradition and previous celebrity guests to be the hotel of choice for a writer!

If nly I could write....this pretty much would be my style! So yeah, I love it! And not only for selfish reasons, I have to admit! 😇

I’d say, the ONE thing you don’t want to have - with nukes on an unstable volcanic island nobody can easily get away from - is a freaking press conference about the matter! Not until the bleeding things are safely away...

Not Kelly....but then I knew it as soon as he made that call.....Helen would have been ok. Anything but that conniving snake...

Hoping for a continuation - soon!

The hurt, the anguish we sometimes have to face growing up....a very powerful chapter. Thanks for conjuring...

Melancholy is the graceful acceptance of sadness and despair. I’m left holding a lily quietly in my heart.Remembering those that went too early PS: I would like to see the inspiring picture?

Obviously I am binging on this beautiful story, so I have no time to comment on each of those nicely crafted chapters...I only use annoying, if inevitable breaks to refill the Bourbon and get some Chet Atkins and Earl Scruggs going! Longing for a languid night in the country, by a fire, under a starlit sky....

At the last sentence I had to break out a bottle of good Bourbon and get my Gretsch....one for Papaw! And one for good luck for Wren....

Can I please have basketball boy - to court, nurture love and cuddle?

Interesting people. To think “proper toilets” are more important than water to survive.... And Ian should know once water is distilled it’s clean, no matter where you got it from...

Ah, that consent thing...good on ya mate! I love their vows at the end.Very mature....I should copy, so I can paste should ever such a beautiful moment arise in my life! Thanks for this wonderful story!

Perfectly sculpted the scene! Their feelings touchable...

Daft still, but stumbling closer....

Ah, blokes be daft....time they get their act together!

We are but prisoners of our upbringing and surroundings....try a Gretsch! Or an Alembic - bass perhaps? Dingwall fan fretted five string, anyone? Keep the music going! Thanks for introducing me to a new band!

Ah, and by the way - for those of you that don’t know or care - there ARE other guitars than Fenders around! Not talking fancy blue Ibanez acoustics here.... There’s nothing wrong with the assorted Tele, Strats and now even Precys here, good stuff, but the adepts know.... ....about the hidden world of wonders beyond Fender and Gibson....lol (now I probably get banned...)

Good. Getting there. Steadily.

Brian showes more restraint and sense than most would probably given him credit for

....finally....movement