7/16/2011 c1 62Cruelest Sea
Beautifully written story. I'm sadly not familiar with the fandom but your story intrigues me..I may have to check it out.:)

Thanks so much for your review on my "A Crown Of Stars" story! :)

To answer your question:

The sword...unfortunately I'm not good with sci-fi weapons. If a show didn't create one I'm at a loss to do so myself. However in the unaired "David Star" pilot they have sword-like weapons in the arena, so I thought perhaps Quadris would have had swords for close combat (after all, it worked in Middle Earth and Narnia). *G*

The queen..in "Mother" Shep didn't know she was alive which I took to mean that possibly he didn't see her in the last battle because she had already been spirited away. I went with that assumption (since he seemed fairly certain that the King was dead) and took it to mean that the king is who entrusted Matthew to him.

D'Hai vs. D'Hea. I have no acess to scripts and had no idea how to spell it. The fansites online stated it was "D'Hai" so I chose that spelling.:o

Present tense..I learned to write (my first scribbles at age 8) first person present tense (I turn, I go) and it took me YEARS to unlearn that style (and to discover that it isn't the preferred way to write). I can write third person with ease now, but I still struggle with tenses and tend to confuse them making many mistakes. Therefore, for ease, and sanity, I almost always write my stories in the present tense, using markings to indicate when it's actually in the past (like the flashbacks I did in my Hawaii Five-O story when I flipped across 12 years). I'm still working on that.

Anyway, thanks so much again for taking the time to read and comment!:)