The story so far

Spoilers

I started writing a short while before beginning this blog. Now as I prepare for my next reading at the Richmond Writers Circle it may be a good time to review the story so far. Here it is -

Tomorrow I shall be reading my favourite bit so far, my introduction to the ladies of the Kensington Gore Croquet club. I have great fun writing them. Alas my partner Y has read this scene and found many things she doesn't like. The trouble is that I just don't know how to write it better. The thing is that perhaps I just don't have the skill. There are things about that I can learn. But the magic I can't. Well I shall press on and we shall see.

The story so far:

Ch 1 Scene 1 - Four magicians meet in a desolate place not of this world. One, Ludens, declares, to the anger of the others, that this is his century (the twentieth AD of the Christian era). He will bring reality and light he says.

Ch1 Scene 2 - The Master of Dover Castle, an eminence gris in the government of the Empire, senses that something dangerous has taken place. He dispatches his agent, Richard Rassendyll (who has cancelled his dinner in London with Mrs Eynsford-Hill) to fetch the Laird of Boleskine who he believes can tell him what is afoot.

Ch 1 Scene 3 Part 1 - Deolali Transit Camp in India. The gentleman rankers, Reuben Chatham and Ambrose Delahay rescue a young Sergeants’ Mess steward - Noone, from a barroom brawl and take him with them in a hurried retreat into the night. They recognise that he, like them, is a gentleman ranker (a man of breeding, education and culture serving in the army as a non-commissioned officer or private).

Ch 1 Scene 3 Part 2 - A cave close to Deolali Transit Camp - The gentlemen rankers and Noone are attacked by Indians and dragged down into a cave. They beat off the attacks thanks mainly to Noone’s marksmanship. Noone says he cannot remember how he acquired this skill. He cannot remember anything about his past. The American Colour Sergeant (Mortimer Angel) approaches and kills an Indian who runs at him in the darkness. Then comes a patrol led by Captain Fitzgerald, sent to bring the gentleman rankers to Kitchener. They see the statue of the Hindu Goddess Kali but Angel tells them that these Indians cannot have been Thugs since those were suppressed long ago. They are merely common murderers and thieves.