I'm now curious what the original prompt was.

I enjoy reading your FF8 stories because ... well, for lack of a better way to describe this, it really does feel like the game. Like each of your stories is just some part that didn't get stuck in the original script. Quistis's line about tying Squall up sounded exactly like something he'd say. And, oh, how I do love Squall's stubborn not!attachment. Very nice.

I love your stories because, somehow ... they are EVER SO VAGUELY sacrilegious. "WHAT? It ISN'T happily-ever-after with Squall? Isn't that what the game promised us?"

You manage to make it work though. It's a very mature way of looking at things. A woman should know who she is beyond her partner. (In Rinoa's case, I hope that the end doesn't fizzle out and die because of her quest for self-knowledge but, hey).

I'm curious what you think about it en somme. The whole Sorceress-and-her-Knight thing. It always seemed very mythic to me, that kind of an attachment. And, after all, she did pull him back at the end. I love the practicality in your stories but I wonder about that other dimension.

Or do you just not believe in it, fin nette?

Just curious.

-T. pirate