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

[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.