regshoe

Welcome, nice to meet you :) And I'm glad you're enjoying the book and the fic—hehe, this novel certainly does get the emotions...

Oh, it's good that you enjoyed the Edinburgh chapters when you've lived there!

Yes, Lochiel is definitely the centre of Ewen's loyalties here. Broster describes Ewen's Jacobitism as being as natural to him as breathing, and he's devoted to Charles's cause as a matter of course, but his loyalty to Lochiel is more personal and more immediately emotional.

Broster's descriptive writing is utterly lovely always—it's one of my favourite things about the book—and the sense of awful impending doom at the end of chapter 2, with those perfectly chosen images, is an especially good bit.

there is still plenty of story left.

Ahaha, there certainly is...!