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  1. Anonymous Creator on Chapter 7 Wed 27 Aug 2025 04:36PM UTC

    Thank you very much. I like how variably everyone's signare is described, where there are commonalities but each instance seems different even to the same person. I wanted to keep the precision in Nightingale's, with the sense of the larger moving, interlocking orrery-world that Peter describes, and the wild-pastoral English landscape in it, but with the slant of almost inhuman pattern recognition, the chime in the apparently random, that I thought Seawoll would appreciate.

    Yes – though the fact that Mellenby's apprentice blames Nightingale doesn't mean that Mellenby ever did. But yes, it is, at least for the space of a night in shock.

    it is so refreshing, in this miserable time, to at least have some fictional characters on whom you can rest your spirit.

    Oh yes. Believe me, I do know what you mean. But, if you will forgive the impertinence and misplaced gravity of making this remark in a fanfiction comment, we who recognise ourselves in the resting and the longing are also characters in this miserable time. There is still and always grace for the making, good sense and levelness, art and science, fidelity to ideals and friends, gentleness in gesture without the expectation of return. No human malice can stamp these out. I wish your tired spirit well.

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    1. Owlharp (Guest) on Chapter 7 Wed 27 Aug 2025 10:15PM UTC

      No impertinence at all!!! You are absolutely right - wherever we in the real world can draw our strength, inspiration, and comfort from, it is a worthy source. We all need to keep up the good fight against human malice and foolishness! Thank you for your kind wishes, and I send the same wish back to you.

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