Loved it! I've never seen anything from Liam's perspective before but you captured his attitude perfectly.

i like it.

they are so the sort of characters who would swear- but the creative bits you mix in, esp. the hand gesture that caused the feud between the ducal houses in Tusaine (and my mind goes immediately to capulet/montague and biting of thumbs with a ha!)- but such a wonderful, real earthy liam- and a fascinating image of alanna mixed in- poor doomed liam, you deal w/ that wonderfully and really capture a sense of alanna as a figure who can inspire and who collects powerful allies like other ppl collect cats- great again. really enjoyed reading these, thnx. :D

nice and believable look into liam's mind- love the characterizing-glimpses of thayet and raoul and the seasick ladies' threat :D

Aw, you! I am all warm and glowy with happy feelings now. I have really nothing else to say. Excellent, chalk another up to your list of warrior-stoics.

You take the characters and make them a hundred times more real, with worries and flaws, tempers and weaknesses. Also very original curses.

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Yay! The Shang fic that we've all been waiting for.

Love the Thayet, and the Liam taking down the best fighters. Thayet: fresh out of Sarain, still the little protocol-whore :) Liam... well he and Alanna annoy me in a sickeningly (pun!) cute way. But that's nothing new, nor is it your fault.

I can't wait for more. Let's see how the Shang actually works!

So you finally got your shang-story going, nyah?

And I am all excited to see where this is going. Your Liam voice is *nice* (and I'm enjoying seasick-Thayet as well).

The "hey, why not?" isn't by any chance referencing the Naruto, is it? hm. and grr. And go look up the wikipedia article on it - cause Naruto refernces a heck of a lot of Japanese mythology and pop-culture (or just ask me... shut up).

Anyways - go you. Yaye. Glad to see you aren't wasting your days away.

Sally.