A Leap of Faith - Chapter 16

[AnnieUK]

and it does look as if the march was *supposed* to take longer, since Richenda says "I have felt the lack of human company these past days since Dhassa."  and also "You must know that I have been in the king's custody for many days now..."

[Evie]

Yeah, those rubber roads are probably the most sensible answer.   Either that or a time warp, but that conjures up horrible mental images of Alaric in a corset singing "Let's do the time warp again"....   

[Evie]

and it does look as if the march was *supposed* to take longer, since Richenda says "I have felt the lack of human company these past days since Dhassa."  and also "You must know that I have been in the king's custody for many days now..."

Having been working on a story that feels like it's taking me as long to get through writing one flippin' scene as it took Frodo and Sam to wend their ways through the wastelands outside Mordor, I can understand this quite easily.  That's Authorese for "I'm dimly aware that only one day has passed in the actual story, but I've been working on these two chapters for THREE FREAKIN' MONTHS, and I need a cappuccino and a social life!"   

[Elkhound]

Social life?  What's that?  We're NERDS, remember?

[Evie]

I used to be a nerd, but now I'm just a geek.