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Swedish story progress
13 April 2018 09:58 amStill working my way very slowly through plot point 6; I just need the episode with the Lapp (?and his herd?), and then I was going to use the calf-kissing episode as the end of the chapter. I just hope this isn't going to be as laborious to read as it is to write -- it does need to be a pretty soul-draining experience, because it isn't exactly a barrel of laughs for Christine, plus I suspect that the audience appetite for C/E interaction is much greater than mine :-p
However, having decided that I was going to pursue this plotline to the bitter end before branching back to Raoul, I'm now strongly tempted all over again to switch at the end of this chapter( Read more... )
Facts and figures:
Reindeer calves are born in May. Reindeer migrate in April/May, before their calves are born 'in the foothills of the mountains'. Swedish migration patterns seem to be basically towards the Norwegian border all along the mountains -- I'm assuming they went on down to the sea in the days before border control, as other sources talk about reindeer/caribou going to the coast for the summer...
I've very carefully avoided any clear indication of exactly where Erik is holding Christine prisoner( Read more... )
More date problems: my original plotline called for Erik to injure himself chasing/rescuing Christine, and to be on the point of death from septicaemia when she returned. However, it also calls for Christine to travel first to Paris, then down to Chagny, then back to Sweden to retrieve her papers and visit Madame Valerius, then an unspecified bureaucratic delay before they legally can be married there (?three weeks?), followed by a search across Sweden to locate the hut again.
All of which implies that Christine doesn't get back for a couple of months -- far too long for Erik to survive a bout of septicaemia! ( Read more... )
However, having decided that I was going to pursue this plotline to the bitter end before branching back to Raoul, I'm now strongly tempted all over again to switch at the end of this chapter( Read more... )
Facts and figures:
Reindeer calves are born in May. Reindeer migrate in April/May, before their calves are born 'in the foothills of the mountains'. Swedish migration patterns seem to be basically towards the Norwegian border all along the mountains -- I'm assuming they went on down to the sea in the days before border control, as other sources talk about reindeer/caribou going to the coast for the summer...
I've very carefully avoided any clear indication of exactly where Erik is holding Christine prisoner( Read more... )
More date problems: my original plotline called for Erik to injure himself chasing/rescuing Christine, and to be on the point of death from septicaemia when she returned. However, it also calls for Christine to travel first to Paris, then down to Chagny, then back to Sweden to retrieve her papers and visit Madame Valerius, then an unspecified bureaucratic delay before they legally can be married there (?three weeks?), followed by a search across Sweden to locate the hut again.
All of which implies that Christine doesn't get back for a couple of months -- far too long for Erik to survive a bout of septicaemia! ( Read more... )