Jul. 21st, 2010

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I finally got off my ass and made the edits based on [livejournal.com profile] lynati_1's and [livejournal.com profile] uminohikari's beta responses. Thanks, you two!

Chapter 14: Making It Better. In which Ginny attempts to make amends and regain something approximating a normal life, with varying degrees of success. If you pretend hard enough, can you make something true? (10,650 words)

And now I think it's cooled off enough to try watching television via the internet. :-)
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I went grocery shopping today. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring a book or magazine to occupy the half hour I sit around in the little food court area before gathering my purchases and proceeding to checkout. However, I had a pen and a notepad, so I decided to do a bit of writing. This is what came out.

In the notes to Pebble on a Mountain, my previous Firsthome ficlet, I mentioned the Three-Day Revolution that broke the Estarin Empire, and how the Empress Consort fought a valiant rearguard action trying to put things back together. But before she fought, she was a woman grieving her husband's death. (975 words)

Against the Flood )

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And then, of course, she went to war. Eight years later, when Maranea had been driven from mainland Estaria out to the Gwynorae archipelago, and her invasion fleet had been defeated at the siege of Tenuno, the Hlaenor captured her and Jorilar (who was then fourteen years old) and sold them to the provisional interim government of the Free City of Estara in return for an official relinquishment of all Estarian rights to the islands of Na'eraelu and Rusalich. Three years after that, Maranea was executed. Jorilar escaped in the consequent riots and fled south to Merua, where he declared himself king and renounced any claim on the Imperial throne.

Thus ended the Empire.

(Of course, other people kept trying to put it -- or at least the Estarian parts -- back together for several hundred years, but by Ekanu's day the fragmentation of Estaria is basically a done deal.)

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