Progress report: Atonement (Torchwood)
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wiseheartWorking on Chapter 4 in the morning, the dratted plot has taken an unexpected turn. Now it seems that I'll have to relocate some of the events to Torchwood House and add a subplot of government (or rather UNIT) conspiracy to the story. I never intended to do that - unfortunately, it makes a lot of sense. *sighs* I hate when the plot does that.
Anyway, excerpts:
#1
For a supposedly decadent nobleman in his late forties, Sir Archibald McAllister, the leader of Torchwood Two, seemed almost inordinately chipper at such a lage night meeting. Of course, the one-man Glasgow branch never had to face the same challenges as the Cardiff one. All Sir Archibald call-me-Archie had to do was to supervise the Secondary Archives hidden under his own mansion, watch over the Loch Ness monster and occasionally visit Torchwood House, where some of the most dangerous and secret stuff was stored.
#2
The video feed displayed on the big screen of the conference room showed him in his library: a spacious, vaulted room, each wall of which lined with old shelves, beautifully carved of dark, polished wood. Each shelf was laden with books of various sizes and ages – from hand-written medieval codexes that had been in the psosession of the McAllister clan for centuries to the newest editions. The latter ones were all about history or such practical topics as digital cataloguing or the best way to conserve old books and archaeological founds.
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No matter how much I'd perfer to work on the Elfhelm story, this one seems to write itself at the moment, and I must swim with the tide as long as it lasts.
Anyway, excerpts:
#1
For a supposedly decadent nobleman in his late forties, Sir Archibald McAllister, the leader of Torchwood Two, seemed almost inordinately chipper at such a lage night meeting. Of course, the one-man Glasgow branch never had to face the same challenges as the Cardiff one. All Sir Archibald call-me-Archie had to do was to supervise the Secondary Archives hidden under his own mansion, watch over the Loch Ness monster and occasionally visit Torchwood House, where some of the most dangerous and secret stuff was stored.
#2
The video feed displayed on the big screen of the conference room showed him in his library: a spacious, vaulted room, each wall of which lined with old shelves, beautifully carved of dark, polished wood. Each shelf was laden with books of various sizes and ages – from hand-written medieval codexes that had been in the psosession of the McAllister clan for centuries to the newest editions. The latter ones were all about history or such practical topics as digital cataloguing or the best way to conserve old books and archaeological founds.
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No matter how much I'd perfer to work on the Elfhelm story, this one seems to write itself at the moment, and I must swim with the tide as long as it lasts.
