Chapter Ten: Shan and Priscilla Ride Again

[rolanni]

We have a lot of phone calls and mundane business to take care of tomorrow, so, our busyness is your early chapter!

Please note that, with the posting of this chapter, there are only five more ahead of us.  Do recall that we've been viewing an incomplete work, and it will not end tidily.

Here's your link to Chapter Ten.

Enjoy!

Comments

the reality of the Tree

[amm-me.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the chapbooks in order of publication in a great while. The Tree has simply always been there. When was its first appearance?

Re: the reality of the Tree

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Oh, let's see.

The Tree didn't get a lot of discussion in the first three books, by which I mean Agent of Change, Conflict of Honors, Carpe Diem.

The first published mention of the Tree as a physical presence is in Local Custom, and in Scout's Progress, we begin to understand that it's actually communicating.

But! Steve and I had taken a couple whacks at what eventually became the Crystal books back around the time the first three books were published -- we have a lot of partials from that period, like Shan and Priscilla Ride Again -- and Jela came with a Tree. So, we did know that there had been a Tree, and it amused me to suppose that there still was a Tree in the Dark Times, when Custom and Progress were written.