Prompt #34 - Trollop - Invocatus Rex, Part I: Xavier, Chapter One

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Title: Invocatus Rex, Part I: Xavier, Chapter One
Fandom: Original Fiction, The Witch War Histories, Vol. III
Prompt: Trollop
For: Taming the Muse
Warnings: some language perhaps, not much; more angst
Rating: PG
Summary: As Sylvie and Kincaid begin the quest for the history of her sword, Xavier loses the battle to keep his distance from her. And just when they think Wales is destined to be a dead end, a mysterious stranger appears almost literally on their doorstep.
Word Count: 5,205
A/N: Beta by meredevachon. Muchas gracias como siempre.

A/N2: Now that we’ve come to the first real chapter, a note of explanation is required. The original three books are each polyphonic in structure. That is, each is told in three distinct parts, and each part is told from a different primary character’s POV. In this book, the first POV we get is Xavier’s. So, the I you read is his. We’ll hear other voices but not until much later in the book.

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This chapter has been moved, along with all prior chapters, to my LJ, where they're located in chronological order in the IR section of my memories.

Comments

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

*Points upwards* What Sparrow said about the domestic details. It is always the details that give richness to a story, gives it depth and reality. You do that so well.
Of course, I have met Aisling before - she was in France(?) looking into a pool of water and scrying. I am glad that I will have an opportunity to learn her back story.
For a moment I also feared that all was not well between Kincaid and Sylvie - that they hadn't managed to relearn how to talk. But if it was rather a manifestation of their common frustration...
So, you have got my curiosity well peaked - the dream of the boy and the sword?
Hmm. I am looking forward to seeing this story unfold. Thank you for sharing it.

[smwright.livejournal.com]

It is always the details that give richness to a story, gives it depth and reality. You do that so well.
Thank you so much. I really do try so hard to make them ordinary.

So, you have got my curiosity well peaked - the dream of the boy and the sword?
Yes, well, that I fear is a manifestation of my own inability to get IR under control from the beginning. Last week's bit - the prologue - was originally much longer and wasn't a prologue at all. There was no way to tell the story without much of what occurred in there and no way to keep that fifteen hundred year old bit in without a conduit. Thus was born Aisling (the second). So, you'll get her 'stuff' as well as some other odd occurrences here and there as literary sleights of hand just to have that part of the story appear at all.

And - as always - the timely appearance of Declan to which we can look forward.

I hope learning Aisling's backstory will be the least of it (and that you haven't been spoilt for the rest by that other bit I posted before)!