"Alan Harnum" <harnums@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

    "Hope," she whispered, and, taking an end in each hand, she
snapped the stick in half.  Across an ocean, the snapping 
screamed like a klaxon in the head of an old man in a library.  
Neither of them was aware of this happening, but it was very 
important to what would later occur.

Subtle hint for the readers there? :)

    Ahead of her, the shadows loomed, flickering in the yellow
light of the torch she carried.  A lantern, even an electric 
flashlight, would have been easier.  But tradition broke hard; 
torches had been the only lights of this place when it was sliced 
out of the rock of the cliffs, so a torch lit her way now.  And 
the sensory experience, the resinous smell of the smoke and the 
tang of oil upon the tongue, were something that no other source 
of light would give.

Seems like that should be "experiences" above to match the plurality of
the verb.

    There had been nothing, no surge of power or flash of light
or sign of anything else, when she had broken the stick; but when 
she had looked at the two broken pieces, the surfaces were 
smooth.

So why did she break it anyway?

    What, he wondered, had they been behind?  How many wars went
back to them?  How many mothers and daughters dead?  How many
children left alone, how many fathers driven mad?  The monstrous

o/~The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.... o/~

    "I see," he said softly.  "I see."
    

It's a message from Horace Greeley's pet bird! Go west, young Kuno!

    "Have you ever heard of knocking, doc?" Nabiki asked, 
annoyed.
    

"Doc" should be capitalized here, I think.

    "You son of a bitch," Nabiki growled, finding words amidst
the pain.  "Kasumi's already ran off and called the police."
    

Kasumi's already run off, or Kasumi already ran off

-End of Chapter 32

As you've probably guessed, I don't have much to say in this one. The
writing was exceptionally good (even by WUE standards) and really
brought home the horror of the situation. I'm still wondering how these
various subplots are going to all fit together, but I think we're going
to find that out shortly.


Gary