Date: 27 Aug 2013 10:49 Title: The Battle of Kaskora
That's chilling...
Date: 26 May 2013 01:32 Title: The Battle of Kaskora
Brief, but foreboding as hell. Yeesh. :(
Date: 24 May 2013 00:55 Title: The Battle of Kaskora
This is one of the most depressing Trek stories I ever have ever read. Good read but very depressing and this is only a ficlet!
Date: 21 May 2013 08:31 Title: The Battle of Kaskora
Oh, Jadzia.
She will ever and always break my heart, and so does this piece. Beautiful.
Date: 21 May 2013 06:52 Title: The Battle of Kaskora
Very vivid description of the battle, and painful and heartwrenching description of her need to protect Worf at all costs, despite her own injuries. Awesome writing.
Date: 20 May 2013 23:35 Title: The Battle of Kaskora
And exhale.
Man worth the wait getting back into reading your stuff Sarine. Always it is a visereal experience, with either ground shaking events or some great plotical maelstrom or alien set piece. But always at the core are the characters.
A blindingly brilliant piece here and I just have to say I love the concept of the ficlets for the various lives of Dax. Awesome idea and here is the amazing execution of said idea.
Author's Response: Hey Miranda! Hope this means I will see you get back to Volume III now that I only have one chapter left to go! I'm hard at work on Volume IV by the way... :) Wow, your review is so kind! Some really touching words. For the challenge I only plan on writing for Jadzia and Ezri but I may continue beyond the challenge with the other hosts up to and including Haebron and Jasto from Restoration. Watch this space!
Date: 20 May 2013 20:56 Title: The Battle of Kaskora
Whoosh, quite intense and an interesting take on it all. If anything, good to see Martok went a warrior's death. It's always good to see the Jadzia/Worf pairing and here it read brilliantly.
Author's Response: Yeah, Martok had to go out with a bang! As I have said in some of the other comment replies, I loved Jadzia and Worf as a couple, so I was glad to be able to include them here.
Date: 20 May 2013 01:27 Title: The Battle of Kaskora
:( So crazy. A very, very hopeless and dark feeling to this piece. Enough explanation of what happened, that it's easy to fill in the blanks with your imagination and get a very vivid picture of what is happening. Can't wait to see what else you do for the challenge, whether it's related to this or not.
Author's Response: Thanks Templar! What you say about the filling in of the blanks is the main challenge of these ficlets and so far all of the ones I have read have done so well at doing that, so it means a lot that you would say that! All of the ficlets for the challenge will be related, following the events of the Fall of the Federation (touched upon at quite some temporal distance in my Restoration stories) through the Jadzia and Ezri hosts. Hope you enjoy them!
Date: 19 May 2013 23:43 Title: The Battle of Kaskora
A sad and scary beginning indeed ....
Author's Response: Thanks. Not sure if you have read any of my Restoration stuff, but if you have you may know that it isn't really going to get any better as time goes by...
Date: 19 May 2013 22:32 Title: The Battle of Kaskora
NOOOOOOO, not Worf.
*sadface*
I like the way you stick us right in the middle of the battle scene, and right in the middle of Jadzia hanging onto Worf for dear life. Their romance was one of the highlights of DS9 IMO, and when she died it sucked big time. Seeing the reverse here, seeing Worf dying ... it still sucks. The pain is well described and brings me right there with her.
Well done. Look forward to more.
Author's Response: No spoilers, but Worf's fate may not be as clear cut as you think. So glad to see that I'm not the only one who loved the Worf/Jadzia relationship. It was difficult getting everything I wanted in to these short paragraphs, but from what you said I think I managed it. Just. :) Hope you enjoy the contiuing ficlets!
Date: 19 May 2013 22:21 Title: The Battle of Kaskora
Aw, this is heart-breaking! I love Jadzia, always have, and her thoughts and feelings as she's trying to keep them both alive are excellent here. War is hell. You did well conveying that.
Author's Response: Ditto, SL, Jadzia is and was one of my all time favourite ST characters. And IMHO the most attractive and sexiest as well (just throwing that out there... :) ) Glad that what I wanted to get across in this ficlet got across. Thanks for the comment!
Date: 19 May 2013 21:24 Title: The Battle of Kaskora
Yikes. Tremendously well-written. You really painted the scene here. You can feel Jadzia's strength even in physical weakness, and her love for Worf. Worf losing Alexander in battle is heartbreaking, although it no doubt assures his son's place in Sto'vo'kor.
Also, you can really get a sense of the damage and death around them through the little details you added.
I wonder if they survive this. Can't wait to find out.
Author's Response: Thanks kes! I always loved the Jadzia-Worf relationship, it is the one relationship he had that made sense for his character after K'Ehleyr (had to look up that spelling on Memory Beta three or four times to type it out right!) and so I find writing that part of the scene relatively easy. I'm glad the little details did what I wanted - wow, writing to a 500 word limit is HARD! :) Thanks for the comment.