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Ahhhh that's so lovely to hear! :D Yeah, the guards and Dorrea as an afterthought is my attempt to make Buck becoming more distant seem more natural, so I'm glad ...

woops yeah i should have Buck get a nod from Myal or something. or generally establish that he has the full authority to approve folks. yeah that makes sense... I ...

oop not tonight. got about 400 words done. will try and do the rest... thursday? I mean it's going to have to be. I'm going away at the weekend. So ...

Yay, I'm glad so many notes struck well in this :D I remember being kind of hungry when I wrote it? Which always takes me out the flow. Anyways, yeah ...

Hiya Shady! I see what you mean about it not sounding like Treego's voice. The idea would be that he was sort of conveying the news report word for word ...

ah okay, cool cool :)

Hmm... I'm unsure how this didn't come across, because Crothers, McLean and Haldane all work for the company, Neuromax, that Patrick used to work for. It was when he was ...

How have I never liked this before in all my time on YWS wow. Have finally rectified :)

oh wow you're getting through this fast. I appreciate that a lot :D

Oh hey Lib, thanks so much for picking up my story :D These are indeed sensible things to be wondering right now... read on for answers :P

I keep forgetting what replying on mobile does to apostrophes xD

Hmmm I may have slightly forgotten the guards were here to you know, guard. I%u2019m going to keep Hilene staying behind but I%u2019ll slip in a line about it not ...

yee, me and Jabber have been having long detailed discussions in the comments but it's not like we did that from the first chapter xD

ah, that's fair. sorry, didn't mean to put you on the spot :P

Actually I reread that and I guess I just mean the hook is the fact he has some unspecified business at the palace xD