The Heart's Landscape, ch. 5

[tocryabout]

Chapter 5, "The Darkest Midnight", is completed. Featuring! Walter Langkowski, the return of the long-suffering Professor, Christmas goose, burst capillaries, and Clare of Assisi.

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Adeste Fideles

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Comments

[to-cry-about.livejournal.com]

The amazing origin of King Prawn! There are a couple of hints in ch. 3 about Prawn's powers. If you know what radio waves are, you can probably guess. But I'll be getting to that bit in due time.

A theology student in discernment with a family fortune is a recipe for financial disaster anyway. Joel pays off Prawn for more or less the same reason that he refuses to work for Dept H in the first place. (If you've read Morley Callaghan's Such Is My Beloved, it's the same principle.)

And yes, Paul is slightly batshit. I have way too much fun with him and Prawn.

[youngest-one.livejournal.com]

The amazing origin of King Prawn!

Coming soon to an internet near you!

Hmm. Radio waves. I'm guessing it has something to do with electormagnetism, since they're on the same scale of wavelength as light and magnetism. That's about as much as I can guess, though.

So he's trying to save Prawn and Aurora from military service? I can see that being a good thing, if someone was only joining the army or Secret Service or whatever for want of cash.

[to-cry-about.livejournal.com]

He's trying to persuade them not to join an organisation that uses violence, yes. This is stated pretty explicitly in the chapter, but perhaps it's worth mentioning that Joel fully believes in the nonviolence of Dorothy Day and Daniel Berrigan; he's not just using it as an excuse to throw at Department H. He thinks it's worth thousands of dollars to keep a friend from doing violence, so he pays up. There was never any other option for a character like that.