New Scene with Characters from A Rational Arrangement

[rowyn]

Angela Highland, a friend of alinsa, invited me to participate in her Boosting the Signal column. The column has an interesting approach: instead of the same blurb that shows on Amazon, she has the authors write or use an excerpt of one of the characters describing a goal.

One of Wisteria's goals is "have children", and I always wanted her to explain why this was important to her, but it never came up in the novel.  So I wrote a scene showing it for the column. Go have a look!

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[rowyn]

*teases you back:*

"This kind of difficulty -- curse it," Nikola said, "if you had a broken leg you'd petition. You'd not limp along thinking it was a sign of weakness that you ought to overcome through force of will."

Justin laughed. "Actually .... "

"What?"

"When I was sixteen I took a tumble during a backball match and landed badly. My leg hurt afterwards but I thought it just a bruise. Or an ache from over-exertion. My coach told me I needed to toughen up when I mentioned it was still troublesome a few days later. I didn't see a healer for two weeks. In fairness, he said it was a very slight fracture. Or rather, had started as a slight fracture before I limped about on it for two weeks. The healer was not best pleased with me."

"Very well," Nikola said in strangled tones that suggested the exact opposite of 'very well'. "But you'd not do that again. Correct?"

"Well ... " Justin began, then laughed again as Nikola seized his shoulder and shook him.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Both very cute scenes.

[rowyn]

Nik: *grumbles at Justin for being impossible*