Thanks so much! A lot of the scenes in this chapter were some of the first ones we outlined, and I suspect that paid off in terms of the visuals (by the time we got around to writing them, we'd been seeing Steve's final duel and Carol talking Wanda down from going Dark Willow as comic panels/movie scenes in our heads for months).
*grins* You see the secret reason for all the OC pov scenes now (beyond just the pure self-gratification of the fact that we liked writing about them) -- we needed to justify Steve's crowning moment of badass killing Nergal with his own weapon and having all the Argonians surrender to him, so we had to set up the Argonian code of honor and dueling thing, and the political conflict with Irkalla not wanting to stay on Earth and already looking for a way to oust Nergal and leave. Well, that, and they were really fun to write -- the more Argonian scenes we started adding because we realized we needed to explain this or that thing, the more it turned into its own subplot with romances and political plotting and everything.
Re: Brava
*grins* You see the secret reason for all the OC pov scenes now (beyond just the pure self-gratification of the fact that we liked writing about them) -- we needed to justify Steve's crowning moment of badass killing Nergal with his own weapon and having all the Argonians surrender to him, so we had to set up the Argonian code of honor and dueling thing, and the political conflict with Irkalla not wanting to stay on Earth and already looking for a way to oust Nergal and leave. Well, that, and they were really fun to write -- the more Argonian scenes we started adding because we realized we needed to explain this or that thing, the more it turned into its own subplot with romances and political plotting and everything.