Subject: Re: [FFML][C&C][Ranma][Fanfic] Hearts and Minds Prelude 5 - Tendo Akane: Something Old
From: Taper Wickel
Date: 8/26/1998, 11:56 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com, KLEPPE@execpc.com (Gary Kleppe)

Gary Kleppe writes:

 > Ronny Hedin <thark@hem2.passagen.se> wrote:

 > >>	"I'm... sorry... I didn't mean... I just meant that... if *you*
 > >>don't mind... then I don't."
 > >>
 > >>	"Really?" Ranma turned hesitantly back toward Akane.
 > >
 > >Don't know if this has been said before, but I felt a bit uncertain
 > >about who said what there; as far as I can figure, Akane is the one
 > >saying "Really?", but with Ranma acting immediately afterwards in
 > >the same paragraph, it's easy to get it the other way around.
 > >
 > No, Akane says the first line, and Ranma the second. That seemed clear
 > to me when I re-read it, but I'll try and figure out why people are
 > mixing it up.

Maybe something like:

"I'm... sorry... I didn't mean...," Akane stumbled.  "I just meant
that... if *you* don't mind... then I don't."

(Or something like that.  "Stumbled" is perhaps an awkward verb there.)


-- Jeffery "Taper" Wickel jtwickel@nyx.net ------------------------------------------------------------------ Swap error, you lose your mind.