regshoe: A Jacobite white rose (White rose)
[personal profile] regshoe
Well, here we go! This is the prologue of my Flight of the Heron/Kidnapped crossover longfic, which is about 117,000 words long and which I hope to post shortly under the title

That Loyalty of Friendship. Being the Adventures of David Balfour, Ewen Cameron and other Notable Persons in and about the Year 1753: How Keith Windham saw a Quarrel made and mended; how Mr Balfour took a bold Step, and suffer’d a great Misfortune, in which there was yet a great Happiness; the History of Alan Breck Stewart and Dr Archibald Cameron, with divers other Jacobites; of Falsehood and Truth in Friendship and Politics; and treating also of Amity and Love between Jacobite and Whig.

(I had a great struggle trying to come up with a title, but realised I was taking the wrong approach: what it really needed was a mock-eighteenth-century overly-long title in the style of Kidnapped itself! I'm quite pleased with this one.)

I decided to post the prologue as a separate work on AO3, as motivation for myself, a preview for you, and to preserve the chapter numbering (I don't think AO3 will let me call the second 'chapter' Chapter 1). It's not posted on the website yet, as there'll be no need to separate out the prologue there and I still need to figure out the structure and HTML coding for the rest of it.

Prologue: A Meeting on the Road (1263 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson, The Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: David Balfour, Alan Breck Stewart, Ewen Cameron
Additional Tags: Crossover, Missing Scene, Post-Canon
Series: Part 1 of That Loyalty of Friendship
Summary:

On their way through Appin after fleeing from the scene of the Red Fox's murder, David and Alan meet a familiar friend.


:)

Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 05:26 pm (UTC)
garonne: (Default)
From: [personal profile] garonne

Yay! I've been looking forward to this.

Also, that title is amazing :D

Edited Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 05:27 pm (UTC)

Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 05:37 pm (UTC)
muccamukk: Boromir and Faramir grinning and hugging. (LotR: Squee!)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
Fantastic title! Love it.

I have plans to read FotH when I'm on vacay,* so hopefully I'll be able to understand this shortly.

* the number of books I think I'm going to read on a three-week vacation is not always realistic, but I do plan to put this top of the list.

Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 05:56 pm (UTC)
muccamukk: Picture of a crowned crane, the national bird of Uganda. (Misc: Uganda)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
*sighs in backlog*

Is that on Gutenberg?

ETA: Found it on FadedPage.
Edited Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 06:07 pm (UTC)

Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 06:12 pm (UTC)
muccamukk: Drawn silhouette of a crow or raven flying against a blue background (Misc: Corvid)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
The crowned crane is from Uganda, and not my picture. Though I also had a dream about the sandhill cranes we get here. They've been migrating past all month.

Last time I was in Scotland, I bought a bird book used, and it sorted the birds by habitat, not by family in the order every other bird book puts them, and I spent two weeks not being able to find anything and left the book in a hostel.

Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 07:43 pm (UTC)
muccamukk: A hummingbird flies up to feed from a fuchsia flower. (Misc: Hummer)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
Huge flocks of sometimes thousands go by every year, but they never land, so I tend to end up with a lot of pictures that look like out of focus pterodactyls.

Nine sandhill cranes flying in a V formation. The more distant of them are slightly obscured by smoke.

Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 06:10 pm (UTC)
philomytha: stylised biplane (flies east biplane)
From: [personal profile] philomytha
That is a SPECTACULAR title and I really must get around to rereading Kidnapped so I can appreciate this properly!

Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 09:03 pm (UTC)
luzula: a Luzula pilosa, or hairy wood-rush (Default)
From: [personal profile] luzula
Yay! : D I do love that title.

Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 10:07 pm (UTC)
hyarrowen: (Action Hero)
From: [personal profile] hyarrowen
This Title is Intriguing, and Hints most satisfactorily at its Subject Matter; I am particularly Charm'd by its final Clause.

Sadly, when I will have sufficient brain to read such a long work is another matter. Probably after I go home again. At the moment I have far too much going on, and too little energy and concentration; but it's something I can look forward to in a long and probably baking-hot summer!

Date: Oct. 15th, 2023 03:17 am (UTC)
scintilla10: close-up of the Greek statue Victoire de Samothrace (Default)
From: [personal profile] scintilla10
Amazing title! XD Yay for starting your posting of such an epic longfic!

Date: Oct. 15th, 2023 05:37 am (UTC)
sovay: (Cho Hakkai: intelligence)
From: [personal profile] sovay
That Loyalty of Friendship. Being the Adventures of David Balfour, Ewen Cameron and other Notable Persons in and about the Year 1753: How Keith Windham saw a Quarrel made and mended; how Mr Balfour took a bold Step, and suffer’d a great Misfortune, in which there was yet a great Happiness; the History of Alan Breck Stewart and Dr Archibald Cameron, with divers other Jacobites; of Falsehood and Truth in Friendship and Politics; and treating also of Amity and Love between Jacobite and Whig.

That's great.

Date: Oct. 15th, 2023 11:51 pm (UTC)
adore: (hello bird hello rainbow)
From: [personal profile] adore
wow, that's impressive! go, you \^o^/

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