NOTE: This commentary is a companion piece to The Drums of Heaven and may not make complete sense unless you've read chapter 1 of that story.
Zefyr: We're back, with more commentary. Hopefully you read the chapter, so you get what's going on ---
Duo: I'm not in this chapter.
Zefyr: No, you're not.
Duo: When do I show up?
Zefyr: When I get around to you. You're supposed to be gone or something.
Wufei: Fat chance. We've been trying to get rid of him for years.
Trowa: I found threatening him with scissors gets him to go away pretty fast.
Wufei: And you tell me now?
Duo: Do you mind?
Trowa: Not really.
Zefyr: Break it up. Anyway, do you think it's okay, so far?
Quatre: I liked me in it.
Duo: I can't believe Heero saved that picture.
Heero: I didn't. Blame the author.
Wufei: Wasn't that the publicity still from the Japanese version of Endless Waltz?
Zefyr: Yup.
Quatre: And I get credit for it. That's pretty cool.
Heero: Hn.
Duo: I don't look wicked in it, either.
Heero: Yes, you do.
Quatre: I still can't see Heero as a photographer. I mean, that requires... something.
Heero: Attention to detail? Mechanical skill? Ability to calculate light, depth, and focus?
Duo: No, it's the interaction with people part.
Trowa: He's got a point.
Heero: I'm not 15 anymore!
Wufei: Thank the gods for that.
Duo: But you're still anti-social. I think that part's dead on.
Heero: I am not anti-social. I just don't like people.
Quatre: I think Bernie's cool.
Duo: Peacemaker.
Quatre: I'd make a good diplomat.
Trowa: I think so.
Zefyr: I know I promised I'd write more in this chapter, but it seemed like a good place to stop.
Quatre: Are you starting the second chapter yet?
Zefyr: Do what? I still have a chapter to add for Into These Hills, which is terribly overdue. And I posted the final two chapters for Benediction Darkness, both written just this morning.
Trowa: Read that one. Not bad.
Zefyr: Gee, thanks.
Wufei: I preferred The Creek At White's Crossing. But you started slow. Took forever to get going. And why a Japanese dragon, anyway?
Duo: I know what he's going to say.
Wufei: Chinese dragons are cooler.
Duo: I knew it.
Quatre: Zef must be very tired by now.
Zefyr: Ah. *sniffle* Yes, I am. My poor fingers.
Trowa: Do one chapter a day.
Duo: Yeah, and make it a chapter about me.
Heero: Shut up, idiot.
Relena: I think it's a promising start to Drums of Heaven. But I haven't had any lines yet, so I can't really say for sure.
Duo: Zef didn't put you in the list of No Clichés Used, so you just might end up yelling at Heero to come kill you, after all.
Relena: If that happens, I'm out of here. I have better things to do than relive adolescent crushes.
Heero: Crush? That's all?
Relena: I'm not 15, either. In case you hadn't noticed.
Trowa: Did any of us get any taller?
Quatre: I sounded taller on the phone.
Wufei: I better be taller.
Duo: I'm with Wufei.
Wufei: Will wonders never cease.
Trowa: I wouldn't mind being six-two.
Quatre: I want to be at least six feet.
Zefyr: What? That's your big issue? You want to be taller?
Relena: I don't mind my height. But I don't want to be larger than a size two.
Zefyr: Sheesh.
Duo: A size what? Is that humanly possible?
Quatre: Maybe Hilde would know. She's up on these things.
Trowa: Hilde's cool.
Quatre: What?
Heero: You people.
Duo: What about us?
Heero: This was my chapter!
Wufei: So?
Duo: I think he's pouting.
Heero: Shut up.
End Part 2
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