Fic: "A Point of Honour" (Flight of the Heron)

[luzula]

Ha, I made every effort to be sneaky, but to no avail! I concealed the writing of this story from the Write Every Day community, largely by writing it in parallel with my longfic, and also changed my formatting, among other things by using double quotes instead of single. But still apparently I was obvious! I was trying to get back at sanguinity (to be clear: what she did was to make my Yuletide! \o/ But also she guessed my story while I did not guess her gift to me, argh…).

Ah well. Either 1) my style is too distinctive, 2) we are just too few people in this fandom, or 3) sanguinity is just too good at the guessing game. Probably all three! And now I am going to switch those double quote marks back to single…

But I am happy with the story, and happy that sanguinity enjoyed it! : D I also beta read garonne’s two stories for her, so I knew she was going to get a good haul. Thanks to garonne and regshoe for beta-reading this one, and to solo for translating the Scots!

A Point of Honour (4245 words) by Luzula
Fandom: Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham, Major Guthrie, Margaret Cameron
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Duelling, Established Relationship
Summary: Ewen has gone down to Fort William to visit Keith; meanwhile, a visitor from Mingary Castle arrives at the fort...

Comments

[regshoe]

Now, if I hadn't already known it was you because of beta reading, I would have guessed it immediately from that author's note! If you want to cunningly disguise your formatting you should leave the space out of an occasional smiley face : D

Anyway, regardless, it is a very good story :)

[luzula]

Argh! It's always the things we don't even think of that trip us up, sigh.

And I don't think you could fool me, either--your style is so distinctive. : D (not :D)

[regshoe]

And I don't think you could fool me, either--your style is so distinctive. : D (not :D)

:) Possibly not! But you're right in your comment below about there being a certain pleasure in being known. And if I was deliberately trying to disguise my style I'd to have to, idk, mention a bird without saying what species it is and what it's doing, which I could never :D

[luzula]

"A bird sat in a tree, but this was so uninteresting an occasion that we will pass it silently by..."
: D

[regshoe]

XD

[sanguinity]

Aw, I'm sorry I foiled your carefully plotted plans! Alas, I did not even think to look at double vs. single quotes! As I was reading, I thought to myself, "You know who would really enjoy this story? luzula! It's right up her alley!" and long experience has taught me that when I'm thinking that during an anon exchange, the reason it's so beautifully suited to said person is almost always because it was authored by said person!

Further, the selection of topic spoke to a certain insight and confidence into what I might like, outside of what I had thought to prompt. Obviously those convos with you have all been conducted in public and anyone might have taken note of them, but you did lead that particular list of candidates...

But I agree that I was strongly helped by the size of the fandom -- the list of possible suspects was not that long.

And yes, I got SUCH a good haul. Thank you so much for your contributions, both as author and beta! <3

[luzula]

Hee, it's okay! After all, there is a certain pleasure also in being known. I mean, I could disguise some things, but trying to write a story which is completely different from my own taste and style is perhaps going too far. And it's another question how far I would succeed in such a thing.

Oh, and I forgot, solo translated the Scots for me! Forgot to put that into the post, I have edited it in now...in case you thought that was my own attempt at Scots (I would never dare).

[sanguinity]

After all, there is a certain pleasure also in being known.

Heh, yes. If I could recognize you this go, it's because I've read a goodly number of your words this last year or so. :-)

but trying to write a story which is completely different from my own taste and style is perhaps going too far. And it's another question how far I would succeed in such a thing.

And doing it within a small and fairly cohesive fandom is super-difficult. I've pulled it off at holmestice by writing parts of the multi-fandom no one had ever previously associated with me, but unless we're talking about Ewen/Alison, the FotH playing field isn't so big as to have well-defined "We've ever seen her smoking behind the bleachers before!" areas within it, I don't think.

[hyarrowen]

Yay! Must re-read!

[luzula]

Glad you liked it! : D I thought you might.