DrabbleWriMo 9: Host

Not so happy with this one. Too much infodump without really managing to clarify to whom he can't tell what.

Also, it turned out the Abbé didn't actually get to celebrate any Mass *at all* in canon, quite apart from being unexpectedly derailed from saying his Mass for the dead, which of course made it even harder to include the prompt...

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[Edit: I've just located the 'yellow poppy'/'petal' passage in the novel, and it's *much* later on than I'd remembered, all the way down at the start of the final section (Book IV). Which means that if I use that one for Day 15 I then end up with fully half the prompts remaining but only the remaining one-quarter of the book with which to cover them. ( Read more... )