To All: Apologies all for the very long delays in the next update, have been busy getting in the last of my coursework, but fear not! The snow has come and has made school shut down therefore I have today, and perhaps tomorrow too, totally devoted to writing you a fantasmagorical update that will finally move us on from the little Island Fortress i'm sure you are all bored of!
demokratickid, comagoosie, coz1: Indeed, thank you, Ainslie will have more worries than he would like, and we have yet to see if he will show loyalty to his wife and child or to his country. Will he shy the fire fights to survive to get back to Malta.
stnylan: Yes, but this is to be no Sharpe ect. and Ainslie, and the whole army, will just have to endure the leadership they are under. We'll meet the man in charge and his immediate subortinates soon enough, and see just what they have in mind. Part of my objective in this writing is to work out just who's fault it was that Britain lost so many of its sons almost needlessly.
canonized: Very unlike me
I am trying my hand at new things, so never expect it to be shiny and brilliant like some other writers on this forum, but you learn by experience, so I must try!
Kurt_Steiner: Haha, I would always suspect Yeltsin. In Russia it isn't 'who ate all the pies?' it has to be 'who drunk all the booze?'! And because you put 'you know' at the end of two sentances those men were read in my head with a Welsh accent... don't ask!
Enewald: Hah, quite harsh. Caroline Carver (the picture taken from Sharpe's Peril) was my perfect Mary Ainslie, the straw hat, the summmer garbs, the light complexsion, a Welsh look (she was of course playing Mrs. Tredinnick here and the Cornish and Welsh are surprisingly similar in culture) and A BABY. So the picture is looking a little in the future, but I could find no pictures of here just pregnant instead of with the baby in her arms... I'm sorry!
phargle: Well it was now or never, to be honest. Wouldn't it look a lot worse if Ainslie came back after two years to find his Wife with a child that for all he knows might be someone elses. Anyway, I've hinted that Mary knows more about the regiment and the men in it than she often lets on, and like any good men, they remember her well...
I can't say I know what you mean by the units being divided though?
Capibara: Glad to see you have taken the time to catch up, amigo. I try my best to illustrate the period. We'll see more dimensions hopefully when the fighting arrives. I intend to spend great lengths during the battles. Balaklava for example last only 3 hours, but I shall spend at least 5 updates on it.