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Yes.

Children are asked to read a lot of things that don't interest them.  That's not a knock on the book.  It may be a knock on the teacher who can't or won't bother to infuse a little life into it.

In a sense it was the right book at the right time.  It has at least as much literary merit as Browning's =How We Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix=, though maybe less that Sir W. Scott's =Marmion=, and both of those were once staples of primary to secondary education.  It could expose city kids to what it was like outside of the cities, and kids for whom racism was a distant threat to a taste of the real thing.

Harper Lee was not Shakespeare, nor Browning, nor Kipling, nor Scott.  She wrote a better than average book that spoke to her time and she was celebrated for it.  I think many of us would envy her.

So he can call them buckets.

Dry cave or wet?  Croc, gator, bear?  Tiger, puma?   Your dragons can fight together (see Thatch Weave) to beat the whatever.

Amy, since you like describing Melayne in game-alignment terms, I present the introduction of a GG character whose most apt alignment is Chaotic Clueless.

About 2,500 words.  The tail of it isn't in such bad shape but the start of it sure is.  Now I need rezzzzz ... t

If that's true, how can any first-person sorcery/magic stories take place?  You might not think the second Amber series is the equal of the first, and I might agree with you, but it was a very interesting and saleable series.  And there's Elizabeth Willey's neglected trilogy (The Well-Favored Man, A Sorcerer and a Gentleman, and The Price of Blood and Honor).  There are others, but those come to mind right now.

Kirsey may not NEED to fear (though he's not nearly so invulnerable as Caayoe) but fears like the fear of looking out from high places do not hinge on strength and weakness.

I've written sections that give Melayne a little more range.  But see the B2 chapters now numbered 34 and 35.

Amy, got the review.  You've hit a lot of stuff I had trouble with, and you're right about the PoV.  No easy fix.

As to fear, I'm working off my own experience.  If you can push the trigger out of the awareness, you dial back the fear.

Full reply later.

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_neolithic.htm

Okay, I have =finally= got maybe 3,000 words on Merran and Jamen rescuing the kids and confronting Shogran.  (Follows the =Shogran vs. Pain= chapterlette.)  Now to type it up and find the various problems in it.

Shame Merran isn't properly trained.  Her mother would have brought this to a much nicer end, and denied me a subsequent adventure.  I did say, back in Lifspynth, that when sorcerers travel adventure follows--and some people thought I was wasting words.