Reviewing some old (old!) posts in the first book: When The Lady Estelyn released (or, actually, refused to release!) Mellonin from her service as talekeeper at the Inn (Seventh Star), , she put a charge on her: to write down her adventures, and upon her return, place the story in the library.
Good heavens, Mellonin has been woefully delinquent! Or, at least, "we" haven't been mentioning her spurts of writing.
I wonder whether she lost her "writing material" that Estelyn gave her. Or perhaps, it ended up deep in Ravion's pack, with a few old notes, abandoned once things got a bit rough. Perhaps Ravion has been secretly cherishing it, and he will return it to her first real chance he gets. When he remembers it.
I may doctor a few older posts, to add that in....
And while I am here: Song posts: THey start from here
http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/sho...2&postcount=82
and go til post 94;
and then one more at
http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/sho...5&postcount=99
page six is about the merchant scuffle, and the suffocating dust...