>Heh, Meiling kinda did the Rina Dragonaar thing. I hadn't originally
>intended to include her at all, but at that point in the scene she
>kind of stuck her head around the doorjamb like "I could do a really
>cool wire-fu rescue leap here. Maybe with a little bit of Batman
>skylining on the mansion roof first? Tellin' you. Besides, look at
>this, they clearly need a tank. And Sakuya needs someone
>down-to-earth to ground her sometimes, just like Remilia. Me and the
>Chief can be bros with Occasionally Difficult Ladies." :)

Now that I've started doing some writing myself, I'm learning to appreciate this more when it happens to me. It means that the writing and charactwrs are actually alive in my mind. It means I'm not just ploddingly chronicling events, I'm actually crafting a story.