I like this. I struggled to get into the right mindset at first (I wanted slaughter, dammit! War! Not flowery fields and romance), but by the time the dialogue started I was pretty much immersed. I like the descriptive writing, the depiction of each character's emotion, and the shift from romantic, if troubled to pragmatic and sober in the last paragraph. The foreshadowing has quite a lot of effect... Though considering that you're basing the story on the LP (or so I thought) I'm not quite sure how you can plan out its ending. Still, really nice bit of writing, wonderfully immersive, very nicely mood-setting. If it were now followed by a chapter depicting the horrors of politics, power struggles and war it'd set the stage very nicely.
Also, when we're debating what to do next and justifying our votes, do we post in-character?
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