Thank you. I'm so glad you liked this. It's more plot than I normally tackle, but I had fun.
Fran and Basch enjoy sparring together. (A lot, which surprised me because normally everyone I write having attraction have so much drama about it). Could only have been improved if their audience was Balthier rather than a crowd of slack-jawed soldiers, but there's always next time. I also suspect Ffamran may get resurrected for play on later occasions when the rest of their lives aren't so skewed. There is very little about where I left people here that doesn't make me want to write more about them. ^.^