[Report This]Date: 22 Sep 2020 13:14 Title: Day Four: The Woman in White: V
Wild vulcans... This is bound to be interesting. Although given vulcan strength, Deen is lucky her jaw isn't broken.
Vulcans in their wild state can be quite dangerous and quite possibly xenophobic - I will be interested to see whether that registers with this rather civilized lot.
Thanks!! rbs
Author's Response: Nobody likes to be sucker punched, but for Deen that's a fairly new experience.
Date: 15 Jul 2014 14:39 Title: Day Four: The Woman in White: V
Hee, hee. That's a first contact right there - on the chin! LOL. What's even funnier is that it is the people person Deen who got it, whilst the more sombre and aloof Xylion is the one to get through to the girl. Perhaps that was inevitable given his shared Vulcan nature. Hey, maybe Xylion figured the girl would lash out and made the calculations based on that! You can never be sure with the ever so logical Xylion.
The sparky wit between them all here, with Leva also tossing a few barbs at Deen getting hit and not usually the one on the receiving end is fun and shows how much this odd coupling up scenario of characters on the shuttle is paying off dividends for your story and the characters. I like too how in a way Deen really is getting out of comfort zone as a character and yet remains who she is too, with still her insatiable enthusiasm at the end to check out this odd village of Vulcans. I really like that and I think this shows just how much Deen can stand on her own two feet as a character and just be in Owens' shadow.
Likewise the other characters shine. Again, it is great to see more Srena. Lastly, the presence of the Vulcan and the others is to quote 'fascinating' and damned curious. What's the deal? Really intriguing. Especially given this is a story with a breadth of other storylines and other author's might have been content to have the weird Vulcan village be the central and only story plot. Instead, you pack it all in into a richly and densely packed story with various plot threads. I don't know yet if any of this ties back into the shipbound plot. I'd not be surprised if it were albeit I couldn't call how. Whether it is or isn't, it's a damned interesting development.
Author's Response: Really like your observations regarding Deen. I had never consciously thought about it but you are right, she very often plays a sidekick role to Michael Owens, being his close friend and all. In this story she gets to stand on her own much more and to interesting effect I believe. Of course people like Owens and now Xylion using her skills to put people at ease is nothing new. As it turns out, it doesn't always work like that. I do like to have more than one iron in the fire at any given time. For me, a proper novel needs to have a number of things going on to keep the story I'm trying to tell fresh and interesting. Hopefully it'll work here as well.
Date: 13 Jan 2014 21:37 Title: Day Four: The Woman in White: V
Well, first contact results in some bruised egos (and jaws). Love the way Dee gets volunteered to go in first and gets hammered by the scared girl. An entire village of Vulcans on a strange alien world that shouldn't even be there? I don't know what the deal is. Part of me wants to call a "Children of Time" here and guess that some Vulcan vessel got trapped there ages ago, but I don't know for sure.
I'm interested though. Oh, so very interested.
Author's Response: Yeah, Deen is getting to find out that some first contacts are truly quite painful. It's especially funny because Leva is quite right. She usually doesn't get punched in the face.