Post-NaNo Update: Taking a few days off

Thud.

I have a rough outline of how the dramatic battle in Seeds of Blood should go, including some of the gore and fumbles before it all pulls together.

And for now, I thud.

River of Stars Chapter 10 up on AO3

River of Stars chapter 10, Asking for it, is up on Archive of Our Own.

…Outside of that I’m probably going to be in a bit of a funk today.

Fifteen years. I’m still angry.

River of Stars ch 10 bit – Ominous

A/N: Trying to get the bunnies back into the swing of this fic. They’re currently a bit on tenterhooks of “ack, when will we get LCCN for Taka, ack”, so writing is likely to be a little slow….

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Jack flinched, glancing up from a three-quarters-written draft agreement at an unmistakable boom. “We’ve got trouble.” And I should have given Sha a radio, it’s not like the Goa’uld couldn’t take that tech apart from a half-dozen other places we’ve been–

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River of Stars Ch 10 bit – Armory

Watching a dozen spy monitors at once, Kanzeon rubbed her hands in glee, idly noting Jiroshin grab for the nearest pot of headache tea. Aww, the poor guy. Getting shaken out of his routine was good for him. Good for all of the Heavenly Palace, really.

Especially the ducklings.

River of Stars Ch 10 bit – peaches

Standing in the sunlight in Kanzeon’s gardens, Goku inhaled, and grinned. “This way!”

“Damn it, Goku!” Sanzo was doing his best to keep up, but with the scent of peaches in his nose, Goku didn’t feel like slowing down. Besides, this was the Heavenly Palace; if Sanzo wasn’t safe here, he wasn’t safe anywhere. “If I have to handle weeping kami gardeners, I’m going to make you help them weed!”

River of Stars Ch 10 bit -analyzing intel

Sam looked at her report, and made a decision. “Sir, I believe this report is probably biased. If nothing else, Goujun is Kanzeon’s general and he obviously respects her. But.” She wet her lips. “We know the Tok’ra tried to kill Goku, and they’ve admitted they tried to take Kanzeon out to get access to alien technology.

River of Stars Ch 10 bit – Goujun’s report

“So far as we know, Goku doesn’t remember what happened nine centuries ago. We think it’s a defensive measure, and he will remember, eventually. But until he does, we intend to avoid mentioning anything that might remind him of Konzen’s death.” Miaoshan had looked Jack straight in the eye. “Dragon-General Goujun wrote the reports on that incident. One for official eyes, in case our coup didn’t work and Kanzeon failed to hold the planet.”

River of Stars Ch 10 bit – Princess

Daniel took a quick look, and felt his pulse speed up. Goujun’s not with her. Not good. “Kanzeon Bosatsu? Is there something we missed?”

Sanzo snorted; even as Sam started, and frowned. “That’s not Kanzeon.”

River of Stars Ch 10 bit -fluffy

“Selmak said Konzen was a clerk,” Jack observed. Which, yeah, risky, but if Kanzeon had just as cranky a reaction to their mostly friendly Tok’ra as Jolinar did to her, better to find that out now.

River of Stars Ch 10 bit – visas

“Let me see if I understand what you’re suggesting.” Kanzeon wove her fingers together, all her attention on the archaeologist. “We each – on either side of the ‘Gate – pick out people we think could visit without hopefully blowing each other to bits.