Old Habits Die Hard Part Three, The old dog practices new habits Options

[haute ecole rider]

Here is the first of a third thread for Old Habits Die Hard. I appreciate all of you staying with Julian and I this far, and hope you stick with us to the end!

For those who want to go back to the beginning, here you go:
Old Habits Die Hard Chapters 1 - 7
Old Habits Die Hard Chapters 8 - 13

[SubRosa]

formerly a munifex in the Legio I
This little passage just sings with flavor. Adding in these little touches of specific titles make the setting come alive in a way that saying "a soldier" just cannot.

So now we see where Julian got so badly beaten up. I had assumed that most of those five Oblivion gates came on the way back to Cloud Ruler. Your decision to revisit them in flashback rather than slog through each one before writing Julian's return to Cloud Ruler was wise. It would have gotten very repetitive, very fast (as it does playing the game!). You gave us the best part as well, showing how Julian got her knee re-injured, and the destruction of the Kvatch Wolf. I am going to miss it.

“Your knee is at a point now that you’re laid up anyway, whether you like it or not,”
I love characters who just tell it like it is!

Finally, you bring us to the long-anticipated moment of truth for Julian's knee. I have been waiting for this for a while. Your rationale for why it healed badly in the first place was imho perfect, and believable in a fantasy setting. I am sure as a vet you often see it in bones that are not set properly as well. I have seen dinosaur bones like that, and the way the new growth comes around the old it looks like it must have been incredibly painful for the animal.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Sep 6 2010, 05:03 PM