Wow, deb, that's really good (as if you didn't know. =).
Characterization is excellent, that couldn't be anybody but Faith. I also really like where the story is going, I think. How soon after Chosen is this supposed to be, though? I don't really get a good timeline feeling from it. I assume it's at least a year later, possibly later than that, but then you get phrases like "there are fewer people out there than there were a week ago," that makes the extended trip to Cleveland (which I assumed was right after Chosen) seem very recent.
I'm not much of a critic/editor, so that's all I've really got for you. But I'm looking forward to more.
About four months after Chosen, I'd say.
Be good to get back to it. Be warned - there's a bit of slash coming up soon, to be written next, in fact. The story's actually a prezzie for Roz Kaveney, so the slash aspect, well, yes.
Consider me warned. I can read slash, I just don't bother when fic is nothing but sex. This one, clearly, isn't.
"Sex is never gratuitous," That said, my fics are usually longer on politics than The Sex. But I seem to have a thing for semi-public places.
Oh, the slash won't be explicit; I find explicit sex descriptions boring beyond belief. It's just that even implied slash bugs some people, and this, well, it's Faith and Harmony.
But this won't be porno, particularly. Like Anya and Spike, it's more for solace, a little of that human touch.
Can't picture it, but I trust you.
And I hate reading sex that feels like gyno or urologist visit..
Haha. Harmony and Faith makes me laugh just as a possibility, so that's good.
As long as the 'ship in pairing is somehow established as realistic in context of the characters and the 'verse, I don't have a problem with any of them. But if you have Xander and Giles, say, suddenly decide to get naked together with no buildup, then I get annoyed.
Not quite my reasoning, erikaj, but it works for me. =)
I totally understand. Just wanted to put my bid in while my internet wife is distracted by her book.
