[Report This]Date: 10 Feb 2021 20:53 Title: Part III - The Olive Branch: 9
More Katanga, Please...
We'll see if Star follows his advice, finally. Every lie or offuscation comes at a tremendous cost and they become more costly over time. She's going to have to take her licks - or her crew and those of her former ship will take them for her.
It will be interesting to see if she takes the hard road or the worse one...
Either way, really good storytelling technique to lay out the choices for her in crisp detail before she has to make a move one way or the other.
Thanks!! rbs
Author's Response: Always good to have a dear friend spell it all out to you. Hard choices in Tazla Star's future, no doubt. Good thing she doesn't have to deal with it all alone.
Date: 18 Jan 2015 16:52 Title: Part III - The Olive Branch: 9
I really like the intensity of this chapter. Taz forced to face her past and to discuss it with someone, to word her uneasiness and regrets. The chapter sounds deep enough without being sentimental, just two people trying to remain reasonable in a situation where old grudges and misdeeds are waiting to take over. Katanga once again showed his character and unshaken honesty. Forgiveness might be impossible but in fact, it is nothing more but an abstract noun. Still, Taz has to admit all her decisions and face the consequences for her own sake. If she does not do it, she will be doomed to repeat them.
Mahoney does not deserve even a shred of sympathy, he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time, intimidating the wrong woman.
Author's Response: Nothing harder than to face your own past, especially if you lived your life like Star has. I think you're right, her old friend Katanga is indispensable here and just the moral compass she needs to weather this storm.