Day 23 (Team July)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here's today's prompt for your writing updates and for any extracts, thoughts, or comments you might have.

Keep the fires burning! :)

Comments

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Heirs and Graces

Phase 3 -- July's writing:



The story is moving along, and today took a leap forward two and a half years:

July 1966
Three bottles from his room's mini-bar joined the four he'd appropriated on his flight over in his jacket pocket. He checked the map one last time, then folded it and slipped it into the opposite pocket. Possibly he should have phoned ahead, but he didn't have the number. Besides, his news was far better delivered in person, and announcing his imminent arrival would only lead to questions regarding his purpose.

The month before, when he'd asked Raymond to find out the address, he'd been so certain of himself. He'd had money – plenty of it – and had been confident of being able to finally settle down. Now his status had improved beyond imagining, but the debts that came with his new title were equally fantastical. He'd need every ounce of cunning he'd ever possessed to get his finances back into the black without resorting to breaking up his inheritance. The grouse moor in the Highlands could go, of course. He'd never enjoyed shooting for sport, and while it might bring in money from those who did, he couldn't be bothered overseeing yet another business he had no interest in.

[saki101.livejournal.com]

OK, making all sorts of guesses here. The dreaded Duke has died and so has Hugh with no offspring acknowledged as his own? Edward is in NY looking up Consolata and Rupert? I'm not a big believer in surprises. Edward may get a horrible one shortly (pure conjecture).

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

You're partly right. They aren't in New York any more.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You like to keep us in the dark, don't you?

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

But, of course.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

A nice death to move the plot along -- always a good move.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Deaths do move everything along, I find.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Interesting....

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Glad you think so!

Thanks!

[elmey.livejournal.com]

So he lost track of Rupert and Consolata? That sounds like trouble. And the unexpected inheritance doesn't sound simple either.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

None of it's been simple, as he will try to explain to Consolata.