This is a perfect example why Ficly should act upon my suggestion and create a way to rapidly find the first Ficly in this thread. Please consider tagging this threads first address, it becomes a clickable link. It’s an inside fix, most outside visitors wouldn’t know how this patch works. I wanted to read this from the beginning, but got tired of trying to find it.

@32 Squared: The issue has been filed in the Ficly help forum, accessed from the “Help” at the top right corner of this page. It’s a good idea, but we can only wait. Something else that you should be aware of is that the Ficly story structure is essentially a web rather than a thread. Although it doesn’t happen often in practice, there can be many “first” stories in any “thread”.

That being the case, they should just declare the ficlet with the lowest ID number that’s part of the web the arbitrary “first” and let people find their way from there. Certainly easier to find it from the beginning than from the end.

(The first story in this particular chain is http://ficly.com/stories/8677 by the way.)

Yeah, yeah, great discussion…

Did anyone actually read the ficly itself?

I did. :) It’s a little odd that Rae should suddenly fixate on the blank map when it’s quite possible the other her and Violet could be in danger from Marauders at Violet’s parents’ house, but I suppose it’s not unexpected that her mind might go off in odd directions from the shock. :)

It does give me a bit of a problem in how I can write something that takes note of that without looking like I’m trying to ignore you and trying force the story back into one particular direction. I’ve been accused of that before.

I’ll have to think about it some more.

It’s your story, big guy. I was just throwing another possibility out there, a fool’s errand perhaps. In my mind, both girls are pretty jacked mentally at this point, especially Rae. The empty spot could be nothing, just somewhere to hide from reality, or could be something dangerously important.

im just gona step in here, excuse me sirs…um thx? good story buddy. i dig the science fiction bit alot. keep it going.

argh there seems to be so many old and brilliant series resurrecting these days! I have a weird feeling that ‘past’ in the first para should be ‘passed’. Just a feeling though =S.

A very interesting continuation. Your storytelling is just flawless. And, again, I’ve learned a new word. Pervaded! I feel so ignorant! I think your layout should be standard across all short stories – makes it so nice and easy to read. Great dialogue. I just love it.
Abby x

Glad you’re liking it. By the way, there are a lot of other stories set in the same universe, and many of them could use continuation. Just search on “Aegis” or “Marauders”. There are lists of the ones in the Ficlets archive too.