Dot and carry one

[desperance]

I'm sure I've said this before, but I do love when a character carries over from one book to the next: when they come to matter, basically, in ways you never looked for. The way I work, I put people into situations simply because the situations require them [if Marron is to be a squire, then of course there must be a knight for him to, uh, squire; and so enter Sieur Anton]. Some of them earn their place; some seize it and run with it, and carry on. [Enter Sieur Anton, and so the whole course of the Outremer trilogy shifts...] I love it when that happens, when they become first necessary to the story as it develops and then pivotal, when they start to change things on their own account.

Oh, Biao. You bad man...