Playing All Parts

[jo_graham]

And since I'm on the subject of Stealing Fire with the audiobook being settled this week, I thought I'd share one of my favorite scenes from Stealing Fire with you. This is also the scene that we'll come back to in Elza's dream in The Emperor's Agent which I posted a little while ago. The Emperor's Agent will be out this summer

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[shezan]

I love that bit, and especially the parallel between the two long marches, one in the desert and the other in the snow.

Many images of the latter here!
http://royal-dragons.forumactif.com/t1936p1-images-napoleonienne

[jo_graham]

Those are very useful, thank you! I think some of them are Detaille?

The scene in Stealing Fire, I'm actually cribbing Hugo at one point. "An endless retreat into nothing, into the heart of winter, a procession of shadows under a black sky," is almost a direct translation of lines in L'Expiation.

"C'était un rêve errant dans la brume, un mystère,
Une procession d'ombres sous le ciel noir."

I've already written that part of Elza's story, though it's several books on from where we are. I wrote it before Stealing Fire, actually.

[mari4212]

I always forget, until I re-read, exactly how much I love Bagoas and his relationship with Lydias.

[jo_graham]

I love them too. That's one of the relationships I keep coming back to just to reread.