Aw, Moosh thinks something I wrote was gorgeous!
An epic compliment indeed!
Stivik's line, 'I taught myself to shoot like this because it’s the difference between the instinct to swing and the skill to step back' was probably the most thought-about line of the story so far
I went back and reread the shooting part of his training, and the section in part 1 where he shoots the crossbreed after Tilic misses it... It was hard justifiying in my own head why Stivik learnt to shoot so well; I had it in feeling but had never put words to it. Then I fitted it into context with Dionysia's fight and the line formed; kept editing words and order until I'd really gotten it right.
It's also relevant to events that will happen in Rupture Farms, which is just a bonus.
I really want to get writing the next chapter now, but it's really, really late (in fact it's actually really really early) and I have to pack tomorrow for leaving home (again).
Last couple of days I've been thinking of a few events in W@RF (prelude to Anni's arrival, Nick and Math leaving, Dionysia meeting Gappiqu and so on) and working out how I'm going to write them. Arnie's going to be somewhat more... Glukkony than he is in the RPG. He's also going to be more firm in his decisions.