About chapter 11

It was one of the most difficult chapters to write with the one on Proxyterra. How to tell things as late as possible? I don’t know if I succeeded.

The challenge was to think like someone who doesn’t know Earth very well and have few memories of the person he lives in… and put the two Smiths in the middle of this.

At the beginning, the boyfriend was supposed to wait for Beth in the travel lottery hall, to patch things up. Amnesia would help our volunteer to get out of trouble. But the boyfriend would have been more worried about all this and could have been a little bit clingier. Finally I found this too complicated to manage.

The telephone call with the mother might have been longer too. But what kind of conversation would he be able to have with his few memories?
So this chapter was the chapter of avoidance. Except for having got heavily drunk and for his problems with the two Smiths, our visitor will avoid all the troubles he could have had by interacting with Beth’s circle. You will know much later what the Smiths have found to make his stay without a hitch.(chapter 15, the last one, so not for tomorrow).
Next week, we go back to see Beth on Dalygaran. What happened during her forced stay? Will she know she has been “replaced”? It’s not sure that you will have all the answers in the next chapter, which is cut in two parts by the way, because it was too long to translate for me at one time. See you soon.