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Post by opalgirl on Feb 1, 2010 11:58:43 GMT 10
Title: So She Won't Be a Spinster? Rating: G Length: 244 Competitor: Wyldon Round/Fight: 1/A Summary: Part of the Mindelan clan reacts to an announcement from Kel. Notes: According to Tammy, Vorinna is Anders's wife, and Tilaine is Inness's. (And I couldn't picture Anders, in all his awesome, being married to someone catty and shallow-ish). *** “That…” Ilane glared at her daughter-in-law, who quickly swallowed a word and looked away. “ She’s marrying Wyldon of Cavall?” Tilaine demanded. “She is.” Conal lounged on the sofa and grinned at his sister-in-law. “Does that upset you, Tilaine dear?” Ilane would never understand what joy Conal got from tormenting his sisters-in-law, but he did, knowing what irritated them down to the letter. She shot him a warning look and he held up his hands in a silent gesture, a promise to behave. Temporarily. “I don’t understand how … she managed to get him to marry him,” Inness’s wife complained, sourly. “It’s not as if she put any effort into it at all.” Anders’s wife, Vorinna, frowned at them both. “Is it really for us to say?” she demanded. “No one’s forcing their hands, and if the Lord of Cavall wants to marry Keladry, it’s his decision.” Ilane was relieved to see that Vorinna really had matured: at least one of her daughters-in-law had. “I thought she’d be the spinster to my bachelor, for sure,” Conal remarked, lazily – Conal was quite happy as an unmarried knight, or so it seemed. “And to marry the training master? That’s not Kel, at all.” “Clearly,” Vorinna said, glowering at a plainly sulking Tilaine, “there’s more to it than what we’ve heard.” Ilane had to agree. There was more to this whole affair, and the moment she saw Kel in person, she would get to the bottom of it.
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Post by Lisa on Feb 1, 2010 12:00:02 GMT 10
Oh, this is great!! I'm so happy to have you on Team Cavall - your "voices" are always so perfect!
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Post by wordy on Feb 1, 2010 12:11:06 GMT 10
I love Conal in this! And I agree with Lisa, the voices are spot-on!
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Post by journeycat on Feb 1, 2010 12:25:50 GMT 10
I like your characterization on the Mindelan family, especially Conal. I also like that Vorinna is more accepting and mellow than Tilaine is - it's good that Kel and Wyldon have some supporters in Mindelan!
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Post by opalgirl on Feb 1, 2010 12:27:10 GMT 10
Oh, this is great!! I'm so happy to have you on Team Cavall - your "voices" are always so perfect! Hee. Honestly, probably because hearing and auditory things are my strength; I have trouble visualizing characters, but I can hear them speak as easily as if they were right there. (Especially characters like Wyldon). I'm proud to be liked by the Wyldon Guru. wordy: Yeah. I never quite got behind the outright demonization of Conal in fanfic that I saw; I see him as more or less the errant kid, the prankster who goes too far and doesn't quite know when to stop. journeycat: They're honestly almost original characters, except for Ilane and Kel's perception of the sisters-in-law, so I'm glad I was able to make them real. And, of course K/W has support.
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Post by ubiquitous on Feb 1, 2010 12:33:26 GMT 10
Great fic! I adore the ending, so very Ilane.
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Post by dragonbat on Feb 1, 2010 13:39:58 GMT 10
Oh, yes! I like!
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Post by rubberduck on Feb 1, 2010 18:50:54 GMT 10
Ahhh, like the others I love Conal! It's just how you'd imagine him, cheeky and trouble! Just like a naughty Raoul
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