On 10/16/2005 08:37 PM, Mark MacKinnon said:

Michael A Chase wrote:

On 10/10/2005 02:15 PM, Mark MacKinnon said:

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply, Michael.  Work continues to be
nuts.  Also, I'd like to take a quick moment to let people know that
my web site is currently down because my data transfer for the month
has been exceeded (and it's only half-way through the month!).
Popularity is a double edged sword.  I'm working on rectifying that.
Anyway, on with the comments!

Are you charged for hits or bytes transferred?

So at last we know the real name of Desidinder.  Now I wonder who
"That witch" was.  Hopefully she's not still around thousands of
years later, but Dragon, Hild, and the godlings are.

Well, we do know someone with the sobriquet "Ship-Killer", don't we?

IIRC, she preferred to be called Ship-Seducer.

I haven't established a lot of rules regarding the royal houses in 
the story, since although such things are of acedemic interest they
tend to take away from the story at hand.  For reference, though, in
the UK, a duke or duchess is referred to as His Grace or Her Grace,
so we can assume the person Greely served was a duchess, not a
princess.  Royal Guards in this kingdom serve all members of the
royal family, not just the queen.  It isn't specified in this
conversation that Greely served Gar's mother ... since your line of
reasoning is pretty clearly that if Gar is Kendra's cousin, then one
of his parents must have been a sibling to the queen's mother.  That
line of reasoning is quite correct, as far as it goes.  Of course,
although Gar is referred to as Kendra's cousin, it has not been
stated whether he is a direct cousin or a more distant one.  The fact
that he is clearly not Her cousin at all aside, of course ...
Anyway, to answer your question (eventually), Greely served the head
of the duchy in the outland province of Haaken.  Whether the head of
that duchy was Gar's mother hasn't been made clear yet.  But it will
be.

Considering that Gar remembers the Moon Queendom and possibly predates
it, I doubt any currently living mortal has met his real mother.  I'd
figured cousin was being used as a general term for a relative somewhere
out there past siblings.  Whether he actually has a blood connection to
anyone we've met isn't terribly important.  Maybe he just showed up at a
family reunion pretending to know everyone.

Yeah.  I try to have people react according to their own knowledge 
and prejudices, of course, but we all know better.  I just didn't see
any reason why Saekianna would guess just how kick-ass this
particular safe was.  It was a real piece of work, experimental Gel
notwithstanding.

There couldn't be more than a small handful of people who could have
opened it even without the Gel.  There might not be any other than the
Highview Cat.

Maybe she'll let that cute red-head she met at Club Kiss watch. :}b

Boy, wouldn't that be a real Kuno moment!

I'm looking forward to the scene when she realizes the connection
between Ranma's two bodies.  At least with her, Ranma changing in front
of her should be sufficient.

Thanks for the comments.  I'm in the middle of a job that's 
imploding, so i don't know if I'll have chapter 19 out before next 
weekend at the absolute earliest.  Plus, I have to fix this thing
with my web page.  But progress is being made.  So stay tuned.

Hopefully the implosion will end while you still have some sanity left.
OTOH, that might explain some of the story line. :}b

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