>Woah. Three pieces in three weeks.
>Wow!

Yeah - I have much the same feeling myself. I'm getting a little dizzy. :)

>It's getting better and better Gryph!

Thanks - glad you like it.

>Of course, now the question is, what happened in the (does a little
>math) 5-weeks-and-change between SotS 4 and Wakaba's arrival.

Well, among other things, C-term Finals Week (last week of February), WPI's version of Spring Break (first two weeks of March), and the first week of D-term (third week of March). Telling that will probably take the form of a few more side stories; one is already complete, but has to wait until the others are ready, and then the stage will be set for the Fifth Movement (which looks like it will begin a day or two before the end of Spring Semester Blues).

For those of you interested in such things, the fill-in pieces go by the working titles (in chronological order):

Entr'acte: A Question of Faith
Entr'acte: How to Court a Princess and
Interlude at Bancroft Tower No. 1 in D Minor

>Man, WPI is beginning to take on apsects of your average anime high
>school:
(snip)
>I suppose that is the effect your trying to get. :)

Something like that, yeah. :)

>You know, it's rather easy to envision this entire series as anime
>OVAs.

I suspect a good bit of that can be attributed to the fact that I have a very cinematic imagination - that is, I often see things as animated sequences, then have to translate them into prose. This can be rewarding, and is often terribly frustrating as well, especially since I can clearly see the way things ought to be drawn, but have no skill or talent whatsoever to draw them with. We'd be up to... oh, at least our ankles, in Symphony-related artwork if I had the ability to produce decent drawings.

>Hmm, will Wakaba be chanting Honou No Ya soon enough?
>I envision her leaning (heavily) towards fire.

Poor Wakaba didn't even get the 2-second briefing the Magic Knights got. She has no idea what the midget was talking about...

>It's quite refresing
>to see Gryphon, Marty, Zoner, and the gang from Utena's
>viewpoint--heck it's the next best thing to meeting them myself.

This was an interesting thing to develop, too, when I started working on Christmas Rose. I found it very peculiar to be working on a story in which my own avatar is a supporting player, and a fairly remote one, at that. The phenomenon brought home to me how much the universe and its original core characters have evolved. Wasn't that long ago that Gryphon-sensei would have been in Corwin's position himself... :)

--G.
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