A Song for Two Voices - book 9
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last_herald_mage This section is very rough draft, but I am nonetheless pretty happy because it contains:
*STEF!!!!!!!!!! AND!!!!! VANYEL!!!!!!
*Although I am terrible at writing romance so I have no idea if it works at all
*This section is actually pretty upbeat (relatively speaking) and light on Bad Things Happen To Vanyel
*As well as containing some legit Good Things, like the aforementioned Stef
*Stef needed to be Elsewhere for a bit, so he also has adventures! And meets some kyree!
*Vanyel and Leareth have time to kill, and make some progress in their conversations
*I guess there is one bad thing that happens to Vanyel, but Stef is there so it's all okay!
*Jisa does something that another character refers to as "the most Vanyel thing imaginable"
*Some Jisa and Treven
*Really awkward drunken interactions at parties
*Vanyel makes the extremely dubious decision to go shout at a god again, and no one is surprised
*Melody doing relationship counselling, because frigg do they need it.
There were some rewrites on book 7 and 8 but they don't have a huge effect on the book 9 plot.
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*STEF!!!!!!!!!! AND!!!!! VANYEL!!!!!!
*Although I am terrible at writing romance so I have no idea if it works at all
*This section is actually pretty upbeat (relatively speaking) and light on Bad Things Happen To Vanyel
*As well as containing some legit Good Things, like the aforementioned Stef
*Stef needed to be Elsewhere for a bit, so he also has adventures! And meets some kyree!
*Vanyel and Leareth have time to kill, and make some progress in their conversations
*I guess there is one bad thing that happens to Vanyel, but Stef is there so it's all okay!
*Jisa does something that another character refers to as "the most Vanyel thing imaginable"
*Some Jisa and Treven
*Really awkward drunken interactions at parties
*Vanyel makes the extremely dubious decision to go shout at a god again, and no one is surprised
*Melody doing relationship counselling, because frigg do they need it.
There were some rewrites on book 7 and 8 but they don't have a huge effect on the book 9 plot.
MOBI copy
EPUB copy
Re: Vanyel on balconies...
Date: 2019-04-16 04:58 pm (UTC)And yep, you're right that I neglected/forgot the physical aspect of their relationship towards the end (guess that shows what *my* priorities are here, and the problem with ace people trying to write romance, e.g. forgetting sexual tension is a thing as soon as it's inconvenient – I think I can only write it at all by gluing a bunch of tropes together anyway). I'd been sort of intending to imply that they progressed to touch once they got to k'Treva, but then I was aaaa awkward about actually writing it.
I think the apology scene probably still works if Van doesn't confess attraction at all and basically just says he thinks Stef is neat and wants to hang out but *very much definitely* not in a romantic way thank you.