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[speak_me_fair]

Title: Sarcanet Surety
Author: speak_me_fair
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Kate/Hotspur
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: This second tetralogy AU is set primarily during WWI and just before it. Terrible liberties are taken with real history in both directions :-) and probably horrible things to the characters as well...
Summary: This is not how Kate wants to marry....

Comments

[assimbya]

There was an interesting eerieness running through this story, with Kate uncertain of how much control the rest of society had over her marriage, how much of what she valued about her relationship was being leeched away by public attention to it. And that made the end a relief and an affirmation. Very nice.

[speak_me_fair]

Yeah...I have the feeling that between the time of Richard's deposition and his death, people are wondering around shadowlands a great deal, neither one thing nor another, and a lot of what is good being slowly drained from them. I thought the press made a good modern(ish) analogy to that...

The end IS a relief - but it's them *G* the bad things happen later....

[assimbya]

I like that concept, of that sort of purgatory. I think it's fascinating, and makes a lot of sense.

Oh, yes. Quite a pity indeed.

[speak_me_fair]

Thank you! The idea of all the different levels and variations of almost-hell fascinate me, and are great fun to play with.

It *is* a pity...