English has rules? That's new to me. I always thought the deciding factor was the weather, what day of the week we're having or one's religious devotion. Or something equally illogical. *g*

I've started translating this particular story a little more than two years ago. It was originally finished in 1999, at a time when my English was practically nonexistent, so it was written partly in German, partly in Hungarian. Of course, it couldn't be published like that anywhere, but translating from two different languages into a third one is so tedious, that's why I have such long breaks in-between.