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I was reading _Iron Kissed_ by Patricia Briggs (for those of you not familiar with it, it's the third book in the "Mercy Thompson Is Not Your Everyday Mechanic" series, which I heartily recommend) and it occurred to me that much as I love Mercy I've never written a song for her.
I tried to write a song for _The Hob's Bargain_ once (which is also by Patricia Briggs and also a great book) and parts of it were quite good, but parts were pretty crippled because I trapped myself into this involuted rhyme scheme and eventually it wandered away into the depths of my mind and for all I know is dead under the furniture somewhere in there. Occasionally I think I hear snatches of it, but that might be just its ghost.
Anyway, the song for Mercy, once I started thinking about it, spilled out in about half an hour, though the tweaking and polishing takes longer, of course. I don't *think* it has any spoilers, beyond what you would figure out from reading the blurb on the back of the book, but I'll put it behind a cut-tag just in case.
I tried to write a song for _The Hob's Bargain_ once (which is also by Patricia Briggs and also a great book) and parts of it were quite good, but parts were pretty crippled because I trapped myself into this involuted rhyme scheme and eventually it wandered away into the depths of my mind and for all I know is dead under the furniture somewhere in there. Occasionally I think I hear snatches of it, but that might be just its ghost.
Anyway, the song for Mercy, once I started thinking about it, spilled out in about half an hour, though the tweaking and polishing takes longer, of course. I don't *think* it has any spoilers, beyond what you would figure out from reading the blurb on the back of the book, but I'll put it behind a cut-tag just in case.
( You Stand Alone )
