Fic: 'Prologue: A Meeting on the Road' (Kidnapped, Flight of the Heron)

[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.

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Comments

[regshoe]

Aww, amazing. Cranes (Eurasian common crane, Grus grus) are very rare here—I was lucky enough to see some of them a few weeks ago, and was very happy about it.

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.

[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.

[regshoe]

Aww! What beautiful blurry pterodactyls they are.