Aww, I'm glad you enjoyed this so much! I was a little worried, because it's kinda long and talky. But so far, reader response is 100% positive! :-)
Feeling a little "Restless," are we? (heh)
You know how we love our dream sequences. Plus, it seemed like a good way to ease back into the story after a two-week hiatus...
Hmmmmmm, fireman when the floods roll back?
Hookles noted that too, but it's actually more of a coincidence. At some point, perhaps when we sit down to do the oft-promised "liner notes", we'll expound on the elemental symbolism and what it means to be a "fire-man" in the context of this story. Of course, all this elemental stuff is ultimately inspired by "Restless"...
Man of the house? What about Giles?!
As noted a couple of lines earlier, Giles has stepped out for the moment, so Xander temporarily holds the Y-chromosome monopoly.
OK, the whole scene was nice. But this? LOVED this bit. Ghod that was funny. And that's how it IS, too.
Especially for Xander - he seems to have made a career of falling into bed (or against bookshelf) and then trying to figure out what he's doing after the fact. This also seemed to tie in nicely with Willow and Miss Harkness's talk about unknowable consequences. Plus, funny!
Feel dumb saying "I liked this a whole lot," but again, just like with the Dawn/Xander talk, it's not "just" about Buffy stuff any more....it's about well you know life.
Aw, thanks. We wanted to play around a bit with the interconnections between magic (an ill-defined concept in the Buffyverse) and everything else in life, and this chapter gave us a chance to look at it from a couple of different directions. I hope that doesn't sound too calculated...
Continuity porn!
Hee hee. :-)
Heh, heh. I love the triple grrrls. Even if they do like Kennedy.
I think they like everybody - it's just that everyone else's kitchen witch scenes keep ending up on the cutting-room floor. I'm glad you're enjoying the running joke, though; we're trying not to lay it on too thick. :-)
LOVE Miss Harkness. Did we clear that up last installment? OK then.
Re: Commentses!
Feeling a little "Restless," are we? (heh)
You know how we love our dream sequences. Plus, it seemed like a good way to ease back into the story after a two-week hiatus...
Hmmmmmm, fireman when the floods roll back?
Hookles noted that too, but it's actually more of a coincidence. At some point, perhaps when we sit down to do the oft-promised "liner notes", we'll expound on the elemental symbolism and what it means to be a "fire-man" in the context of this story. Of course, all this elemental stuff is ultimately inspired by "Restless"...
Man of the house? What about Giles?!
As noted a couple of lines earlier, Giles has stepped out for the moment, so Xander temporarily holds the Y-chromosome monopoly.
OK, the whole scene was nice. But this? LOVED this bit. Ghod that was funny. And that's how it IS, too.
Especially for Xander - he seems to have made a career of falling into bed (or against bookshelf) and then trying to figure out what he's doing after the fact. This also seemed to tie in nicely with Willow and Miss Harkness's talk about unknowable consequences. Plus, funny!
Feel dumb saying "I liked this a whole lot," but again, just like with the Dawn/Xander talk, it's not "just" about Buffy stuff any more....it's about well you know life.
Aw, thanks. We wanted to play around a bit with the interconnections between magic (an ill-defined concept in the Buffyverse) and everything else in life, and this chapter gave us a chance to look at it from a couple of different directions. I hope that doesn't sound too calculated...
Continuity porn!
Hee hee. :-)
Heh, heh. I love the triple grrrls. Even if they do like Kennedy.
I think they like everybody - it's just that everyone else's kitchen witch scenes keep ending up on the cutting-room floor. I'm glad you're enjoying the running joke, though; we're trying not to lay it on too thick. :-)
LOVE Miss Harkness. Did we clear that up last installment? OK then.
Aw, shucks...
Oh TOO bloody cool. This one, right?
Actually this one. We couldn't see the point of having a coven in Westbury if they didn't go out to see the horse.
((facepalm)) Oh, Willow....what did you just do? Use your enormous squishy frontal lobes and THINK!
The Hook reckoned it would be out of character for Willow to catch on too quickly...
((whimpers)) More soon?
Yes, very soon. Good little readers get
candynew chapters. :-)