I can’t decide whether it’s better for him if someone just tells him now, or if he lives in happy ignorance a while longer with little hearts in his eyes.
I think Iusta should clarify to him that she wasn’t bluffing about her husband. It seems that Damon, despite being a petty thief, is still ver naive about interpersonal relationships.
He probably hasn’t had much in the way of interpersonal relationships for a long time. What with the running away and the being locked in sheds with no shoes.
About the Kickstarter – when will it be possible to buy the book outside of it? I spent like a month trying to convince my mum to let me contribute on the 35 tier but Alas! It was over by the time she agreed.
Sorry you couldn’t join us for the Kickstarter, but I’m very glad you’d still like to get the book!
Currently, the plan is to send the book to the printer in mid-March and receive books in April. Once the book is on press, I’ll take orders for copies (that way I can plan for how many to send out individually from Europe, and for the rest to be shipped in one big lot to the US and then mailed to folks in North America).
January, when I was going to do most of the production work on the book, was lost to taking care of a very ill relative (who’s back to about 99% recovered now!), so things are running about a month behind 🙂
Much closer! But alas Damon is stuck on the wrong (boy) side and Felix is on the other (manly man) side. Maybe if Damon checks back in about five years…
Unfortunately for Damon, not only Felix is on the manly man side but Iusta is also on the adult woman side, despite her age. She did a lot of growing up on Misenum and morphed form rich-semi-spoiled-country-girl to well-to-do-not-helpless-grown-woman. Right now she is learning the ropes of being a proper Roman matron, but it seems that she is getting the hang of it.
Pre-Misenum Iusta would probably have fretted and called her father or Felix to fix the problem. Post-Misenum Iusta just handled it.
So poor Damon is stuck on the boy/man-child side for many years as far as Iusta is concerned.
I don’t suppose Damon is old enough and Roman enough to begin plotting to murder his foster-father and marry the bright, shiny new wife? Naww, it’s Greeks who plan things like that. Or is it?
I suspect you’re right: Damon is doomed to be small-potatoes (assuming Romans had them) No Felix is a Major Character and might aspire to Regicide… assuming Romans had kings. It’s a good thing they’re a Republic, ain’t it?
How could you think that Romans would ever solve anything through stabbings, poisonings, drownings, starvings, beatings, kickings, beheadings, ripping-apart-by-crowds, or other clandestine or public mayhem? You must be thinking of some sort of Mirror Mirror universe Rome. This Rome is all about the law and the order and the honour and stuff and thangs.
Okay, we have found the only one in the household that doesn’t know about Felix and Iusta.
I can’t decide whether it’s better for him if someone just tells him now, or if he lives in happy ignorance a while longer with little hearts in his eyes.
I like Iusta’s slant eyed look at him, indicating that she wasn’t bluffing at all. Specially about her husband.
I think Iusta should clarify to him that she wasn’t bluffing about her husband. It seems that Damon, despite being a petty thief, is still ver naive about interpersonal relationships.
He probably hasn’t had much in the way of interpersonal relationships for a long time. What with the running away and the being locked in sheds with no shoes.
About the Kickstarter – when will it be possible to buy the book outside of it? I spent like a month trying to convince my mum to let me contribute on the 35 tier but Alas! It was over by the time she agreed.
Sorry you couldn’t join us for the Kickstarter, but I’m very glad you’d still like to get the book!
Currently, the plan is to send the book to the printer in mid-March and receive books in April. Once the book is on press, I’ll take orders for copies (that way I can plan for how many to send out individually from Europe, and for the rest to be shipped in one big lot to the US and then mailed to folks in North America).
January, when I was going to do most of the production work on the book, was lost to taking care of a very ill relative (who’s back to about 99% recovered now!), so things are running about a month behind 🙂
I could be mistaken, but aren’t Damon and Justa actually closer in age to one another than Justa and Felix are?
Much closer! But alas Damon is stuck on the wrong (boy) side and Felix is on the other (manly man) side. Maybe if Damon checks back in about five years…
But it seems that Damon has noticed Iusta as being female and you know, unattached. She’s not, but he is blind to that. Will he resent Felix?
Unfortunately for Damon, not only Felix is on the manly man side but Iusta is also on the adult woman side, despite her age. She did a lot of growing up on Misenum and morphed form rich-semi-spoiled-country-girl to well-to-do-not-helpless-grown-woman. Right now she is learning the ropes of being a proper Roman matron, but it seems that she is getting the hang of it.
Pre-Misenum Iusta would probably have fretted and called her father or Felix to fix the problem. Post-Misenum Iusta just handled it.
So poor Damon is stuck on the boy/man-child side for many years as far as Iusta is concerned.
I don’t suppose Damon is old enough and Roman enough to begin plotting to murder his foster-father and marry the bright, shiny new wife? Naww, it’s Greeks who plan things like that. Or is it?
I don’t think so. Damon is still a petty thief. I doubt he had manage to graduate to full fledged criminal, capable of plotting and killing somebody.
I suspect you’re right: Damon is doomed to be small-potatoes (assuming Romans had them) No Felix is a Major Character and might aspire to Regicide… assuming Romans had kings. It’s a good thing they’re a Republic, ain’t it?
Small parsnips?
How could you think that Romans would ever solve anything through stabbings, poisonings, drownings, starvings, beatings, kickings, beheadings, ripping-apart-by-crowds, or other clandestine or public mayhem? You must be thinking of some sort of Mirror Mirror universe Rome. This Rome is all about the law and the order and the honour and stuff and thangs.
Just ask Cicero or Julius Caesar or …
Ah, Damon…”there are no small parts, only small actors”
Poor Damon won’t understand any of that. He’ll just know he’s in love.
That is the worst, being in love with your father’s wife.