Work, than like the original Last Scene of HHNF, cut
from it on grounds of the book being more dramatic
without it. After all, it merely reinforces and
reiterates the actual last scene.
Thus it may have been deleted as "redundant."
But it does very well to feed our greed.
Update after reading Snippet #1:
My Opinion here was wrong.
We are now shown that this was New Work;
the beginning of ROAD TO HELL. HTM 6/5/15
(2) Emperor Chava Bursa: I have some ideas for "nice"
things he might do before he attacks, to try to make
himself look better to the rest of Sharona.
But I would commit Fanfiction to post them here.
Besides, they are obvious, so Weber, Evans, and Presby
have likely thought of them.
HTM
JimHacker wrote:Have to say I'm thrilled to see some progress on this.
This is one of my favourite series, due to its immense and unique potential.
I think that
(1) plot-wise the snippet hasn't already told us
anything we don't already know. We already had
mostly guessed that she was going to go for a
Uromathian prince, rather than a Prince of Uromthia.
(2) And given that Bursa is already making plans with
the Seneschal to strike down the emperor, I think we
all have a fair idea of what his reaction is going
to be don't we? Even if we don't take into account
the visions of the Emperor dead, the city burning
and so on.
What's going to be more interesting is how Bursa's people react (such as Sunlord Markan), and how the war will turn out. What will be the reaction of the Arcanans to steam engines and the speed the Sharonans can lay track? What tricks will they pull out of their bag? How will things play out back on Arcana? Will Sharona invent the combustion egine hinted at and develop flying machines of their own? So much to explore!