Wow -- I'm catching on my friends list and I've just seen this -- unsurprisingly, I think it is wonderful. I just love these characters -- both the originals and your slightly more grown-up, working out what their adult lives will be versions. And I love the contrast of their choices, that Calle's is to fight, but West's afer he lets go of his anger is to follow what he loves -- and that both choices are right.
And I think you're right that it would have unbalanced the original story if you'd included it as a piece of the same work, but it works really well as a stand-alone prequel. In fact, it works particularly well reading it after having read the Yuletide story -- both the way in which Callie stops being so drawn to the sea and particularly the way West's growing sea longing develops are more powerful having already seen the way that those themes are tied into a neat knot in Wings to Fly.
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Date: 2010-10-15 03:58 pm (UTC)And I think you're right that it would have unbalanced the original story if you'd included it as a piece of the same work, but it works really well as a stand-alone prequel. In fact, it works particularly well reading it after having read the Yuletide story -- both the way in which Callie stops being so drawn to the sea and particularly the way West's growing sea longing develops are more powerful having already seen the way that those themes are tied into a neat knot in Wings to Fly.