Still enjoying this, just having a combination of computer access issues, and insomnia sapping my usable sense.
Things seem to be coming along well. Action is picking up. I do hope this hasn't put her off books. I also hope she comes to enjoy math.
Names: I've been internally using not-Will and Lliw, both of which are fairly bad. (Well, I find them imperfect enough that the most concise thing I like to use, mentally, that isn't 'her' or 'she' is 'the entity partly patterned off Will'.) Lliw has the variations of Lew, Lews, Lou, Louise and so forth.
Deimos, if there isn't already a Deimos in setting. Bia, Nike, Eris. Sophia.
I guess also Mars, Mavors, Martia, Mavora, Mara, and so forth.
Pallas Aeneas *Laughs*
When I heard Vandom, I came up with some really silly suggestions. Mistress Vandom. (Hint: Add a space) Gundam Vandom. Baron or Doctor. (Vandom said Van Doom or Van Dooom!)
Questions: Are the Vandoms any relation of Van Dahl? Is Van Dahl any relation of Roald Dahl? What was marriageable age and such in Van Dahl's time and place? I guess this takes place on Earth. Europe, United States, elsewhere?
Edit:
I like Pharmacist.
I think girls are sometimes named after virtues? Active, Inexorable, or Fierce.
Also I just noticed 'Ye Olde Bookstore'. It says something about her that she fell for this. It fairly screams trap. Either that, or maybe not a very good bookstore. Unless they used an actual thorn on their sign.
I heard that worried squeal from below and rolled over on my improvised bed (in lieu of an actual mattress we'd managed to smuggle half a dozen old cushions up into the loft) to lift the little hatch set into the floor of my room. "What's the matter?" I asked poking my head down into Will's room below (hopefully it wouldn't occur to Mom to wonder at that hatch appearing after more than a week in the apartment - Cornelia's power over wood and stone was enviable now that she had had some practise).
Isn't it practice?
"Thank you," Will said when I put the phon down. She was dressed warmly now and holding a towel which she used to wrap her pet up against the cold weather. "I'm going to dash, just in case it's something serious."
phone
I watched her cycle away from the window and then went to the closet to get one of her spare jackets and another set of keys. After a few days cooped up here I really could do with getting out. As long as I stayed away from Almond Street, it should be safe enough. Just to be even saver though, I added a ball-cap from her closet and scraped my hair back into a short pony-tail. It was barely long enough to stay back but with a bit of luck I wouldn't be recognised if anyone who only knew WIll casually happened to cross my path.
safer, and Will without the I
Edit again: I misspelled Bia, perhaps due to getting her confused with Zelus. I'm more and more thinking of Will's name as being for the quality, as opposed to being short for William and other such names. If so, her sister's name also ought to be such a quality.
Things seem to be coming along well. Action is picking up. I do hope this hasn't put her off books. I also hope she comes to enjoy math.
Names: I've been internally using not-Will and Lliw, both of which are fairly bad. (Well, I find them imperfect enough that the most concise thing I like to use, mentally, that isn't 'her' or 'she' is 'the entity partly patterned off Will'.) Lliw has the variations of Lew, Lews, Lou, Louise and so forth.
Deimos, if there isn't already a Deimos in setting. Bia, Nike, Eris. Sophia.
I guess also Mars, Mavors, Martia, Mavora, Mara, and so forth.
Pallas Aeneas *Laughs*
When I heard Vandom, I came up with some really silly suggestions. Mistress Vandom. (Hint: Add a space) Gundam Vandom. Baron or Doctor. (Vandom said Van Doom or Van Dooom!)
Questions: Are the Vandoms any relation of Van Dahl? Is Van Dahl any relation of Roald Dahl? What was marriageable age and such in Van Dahl's time and place? I guess this takes place on Earth. Europe, United States, elsewhere?
Edit:
I like Pharmacist.
I think girls are sometimes named after virtues? Active, Inexorable, or Fierce.
Also I just noticed 'Ye Olde Bookstore'. It says something about her that she fell for this. It fairly screams trap. Either that, or maybe not a very good bookstore. Unless they used an actual thorn on their sign.
I heard that worried squeal from below and rolled over on my improvised bed (in lieu of an actual mattress we'd managed to smuggle half a dozen old cushions up into the loft) to lift the little hatch set into the floor of my room. "What's the matter?" I asked poking my head down into Will's room below (hopefully it wouldn't occur to Mom to wonder at that hatch appearing after more than a week in the apartment - Cornelia's power over wood and stone was enviable now that she had had some practise).
Isn't it practice?
"Thank you," Will said when I put the phon down. She was dressed warmly now and holding a towel which she used to wrap her pet up against the cold weather. "I'm going to dash, just in case it's something serious."
phone
I watched her cycle away from the window and then went to the closet to get one of her spare jackets and another set of keys. After a few days cooped up here I really could do with getting out. As long as I stayed away from Almond Street, it should be safe enough. Just to be even saver though, I added a ball-cap from her closet and scraped my hair back into a short pony-tail. It was barely long enough to stay back but with a bit of luck I wouldn't be recognised if anyone who only knew WIll casually happened to cross my path.
safer, and Will without the I
Edit again: I misspelled Bia, perhaps due to getting her confused with Zelus. I'm more and more thinking of Will's name as being for the quality, as opposed to being short for William and other such names. If so, her sister's name also ought to be such a quality.