Methuselah's Daughter, Part 4 Chapter 28
J.A. Eddy
Ann Arbor, March 2005 CE
I stared at her, waiting for her to continue. But she just stared at the floor for the longest time. Then she sighed and looked up at me.
“What?” she asked, finally seeing the look on my face.
“You went back.” I said it flatly, not sure whether it was even a question.
“I believe that is what I just said, yes.”
I chewed on that for a minute, but it didn’t taste right.
“You went back to him and he talked you into going back to Rome with him? As his slave?”
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Honestly, it should be a novel all by itself. This is the longest part of the book, close to 50,000 words, but it still hews to the plan where we kept the subplots simple and contained. There's just so much in there... if we had it to do over again we probably would make this two books.
One issue that forced us to limit this was simply research- having real jobs and families we didn't have the time or ability to research this enough to take to the next level. Compare it to the historical detail you find in Rice's Pandora and you'll see what I mean.
In the end, Dean had to ride herd on my desire to add as much historical texture as I possibly could- we couldn't do that right, so we had to settle for NOT doing anything egregiously wrong.
Worked out fairly well, if I do say so myself.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.