While The Light Lasts – Author's Note
I'm glad that's finished. I really loved that series – and now I'm going to work on Love In The Light and my Marshank soliloquies. (You Can Run, Time and Tide, Beyond The Pale, etc.) If I can.
I didn't want to kill Catharine. In my original version, I let there be some doubt as to her fate, but I found it too difficult in the end to pull off. My brother forced me to kill her, saying 'don't be a wimp', and I hate it when he has a bad opinion of me.
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Disclaimer: Don't fall asleep, please.
Part 1: I don't think there's anything here that isn't mine. Please review or e-mail me at kelpie@merseymail.com to yell at me for not giving BJ or Enya, etc. proper credit.
Part 2: The song Catharine hears in her fever is an Enya song, Pilgrim. Of course, all the characters she sees in her dream are Redwall characters, pretty easy to guess who.
Part 3: The 'redwoods die' bit is an extract from a Steps song Love U More. It's not perfect, I typed it from memory. The 'high up on the parapet' is from a Mark Knopfler song What It Is. The 'last laugh' is from a Mark Knopfler song called (guess what?) The Last Laugh. (Getting a great idea for a Sirius Black songfic – see my 'Jennifer Longbottom' profile for my Harry Potter stories). I don't think there's anything else. Oh, wait! Lots of quotes (too many to name here) come from my adored Quotable Star Trek. Hate the T.V. programme, love the book. There's a few droplets of wisdom from a couple of others, too, whom I can't remember. (Haven't I got a wonderful memory?)
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Aquile – from Aquitaine, a part of France (which I'm sure you already know.)
Pargit – a bit weird. I was reading Death In The Clouds and the fictional mystery writer Daniel Clancy calls one of his characters 'Pargit'.
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And so endeth the pointless ramble.
"Ignorance of the rules is not individuality." – my brother. And so endeth the very random quote.
