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Questions to answer:

·        How does Dhurke hear about the case?

·        Why does he decide to take it?

·        What’s Erin’s new Khura’inese last name?

Day 1, Investigation:

·        Erin arrested

·        Someone comes to Dhurke to bring him the case (who?  A nurse who works with Erin and knows herbetter?)

·        Dhurke and Datz go to the detention center totalk with Erin

·        Basics of the case:

o  Gon’sue Yu – brought in for routine appendixprocedure, was due to be released the day of the crime (July something, 2003)

o  He asked to be left alone, barring an actualemergency, on the day of his release. They monitored his vitals remotely

o  Erin went into surgery at about 5PM and handedover care to the nurse

o  Spoilers for end of the case 

o  Erin was still in surgery, but was called outand told to hand the procedure over to someone else.  As soon as she left the OR, she was arrested.

o  Erin tells Dhurke and Datz that she didn’t knowYu, but his surname isn’t similar to anything in Khura’inese and she thinksit’s familiar

·        Dhurke and Datz go to investigate the scene andrun into hurdles because it’s still in a hospital, but are able to find alittle bit out:

o  Discarded bottle of morphine pills with thenurse’s fingerprints

o  Records of people who accessed the medicine inthe few hours leading up to Gon’sue’s seizure: Erin and the nurse

o  Erin’s files – she inherited her father’s filesas well.  In the files is a file forBla’min Yu – Gon’sue’s father.  He diedof a heart disease.

P. What are your pet peeves in other people’s work?

Hhhhh this is hard.  I go batty with overuse of words that could easily be changed out, particularly verbs for which there are many alternatives.  Out-of-character stuff also bothers me if there’s not an explanation for it (like Datz is pissy but you explain that a bird took a crap on him or something.  That’s…not a good example, I guess).

U. Any stories that took a abrupt u-turn from where you thought they were going? 

Crossfire really surprised me.  I mean, when I started texting it to you, I just wanted it to be an explanation for how Dhurke lost his eye.  And then I started ruminating on how I could make it canonically Dhurke/Datz, and it surprised me with where it took me.  And as much as I really want to show Dhurke/Datz, I struggle with writing Dhurke and the stories usually end up being about Datz alone, and more how Dhurke is a force for his change and growth.

What A Father Does was another surprise, because I hadn’t considered really how much Datz is like a father to Nahyuta and Apollo and I needed to get that out on paper.  I was also surprised that Dhurke actually wasn’t in the story nearly as much as I expected him to be.