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regshoeWell, 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:
:)
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.
:)
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Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 05:26 pm (UTC)Yay! I've been looking forward to this.
Also, that title is amazing :D
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Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 05:37 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 05:43 pm (UTC)And I highly recommend FotH as holiday reading. FYI, the longfic uses some material from the sequel The Gleam in the North, and includes partial spoilers—although I'm saying it's not really a GitN fic, and it is intended to be comprehensible to people who haven't read it.
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Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 05:56 pm (UTC)Is that on Gutenberg?
ETA: Found it on FadedPage.
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Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 06:08 pm (UTC)No, but like FotH it's on fadedpage, here.
ETA: I see you found it, and also ooh, that's a very nice crane! I'm reminded of
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Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 06:12 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 07:16 pm (UTC)Oh dear, that is confusing! I can kind of see the logic from an ID perspective, but it wouldn't help me much to have them out of the familiar order.
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Date: Oct. 14th, 2023 10:07 pm (UTC)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!
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Date: Oct. 15th, 2023 05:37 am (UTC)That's great.
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