[Fic] "Any Sentry from His Post" -- Chronicles of Narnia

This began life as a 15-minute ficlet that I scribbled at the grocery store last Friday, but that only covers the first four paragraphs or so, after which my handwritten sheet breaks off with the note: blah, blah, convo. w/ Edmund. The remaining 2,000+ words were written over about two hours tonight. This story ties in directly with "The Courting Dance" and "Out of Season." It is also a continuation of my pattern in which Edmund shows up to have meaningful conversations with my POV character but is never a POV character himself. *sigh* Someday I really must write a story that's actually about him.

Anyway.

A week after the battle of Anvard, Shasta despairs of fitting in to his new life and can't bring himself to talk about his worries with anyone. A chance meeting with King Edmund of Narnia opens his eyes to new perspectives. (2,500 words)

[ETA: The slightly revised and expanded final version is now up here on AO3 and here on ff.net.]

( Any Sentry from His Post )

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...I have the annoying feeling that I've done my old "faceless characters interacting in front of a blank white screen" schtick again -- man, sensory description is just not my thing -- so if you spot any good places for little descriptive asides, please tell me!

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On a completely different subject, tomorrow is the orientation session for this year's RE teachers. It runs from 10am to 2pm, with a lunch break. On Sunday there will be a teacher dedication ceremony as part of the all-ages section of the service, after which we'll all troop upstairs for the first day of lessons. I believe I am teaching K-2 this year (which is a bit of an age spread; I am not sure how that will work in practice, since five-year-olds and seven-year-olds are at notably different developmental stages) with probably three or four co-teachers.

We shall see how it goes.

wherein Liz receives a series of peculiar reviews

In the past two days, I have gotten five anonymous reviews on ff.net for my story Little Sister. Normally this would simply be flattering -- hey, people like my story! -- but these are not normal reviews. They are clearly written by the same person (or bot) despite attributing themselves to three or four different "people," and they seem to be working their way toward being an advertisement for upcoming Narnia movies. Or something like that.

This is what they look like:

jadis 1300, 2011-09-15

wonderful brilliant this had to va in the film The Magician's Nephew

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jadis 1300, 2011-09-15

wonderful brilliant this story had to va in the film The Magician's Nephew Little Sister, a chronicles of narnia fanfic - FanFiction.Net

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charn 123, 2011-09-16

This wonderful story has to be with the film The Magician's Nephew as a set up for the film The Silver Chair, which comes years after

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[no attribution], 2011-09-16

wonderful has to be with the film The Magician's Nephew which comes 2014 as a set up for the film The Silver Chair, which comes 2015

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Lily.w, 2011-09-16

This wonderful story has to be with the film The Magician's Nephew which comes 2014 as a set up for the film The Silver Chair, which comes 2015


What I am wondering is if these are some kind of spam that is intended to make the page more searchable to bots (or test whether ads will be deleted), and if so, whether I should get rid of them. Thoughts, anyone?