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Old 22nd March 2010, 09:38 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Fierce Winds ~ Prologue

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This occasion had not occurred in over a millennia, but now it was the time. The crowning of a new Empress.
millennium

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He stood rigid, his sword hung at his hip his eyes trained on the empress’s every move.
comma after "hip"

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no-one to ever know the difference.
split infinitive

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Still, it was doubtful people would notice, I would have to over-see it myself.
two sentences. Semicolon instead of comma? And do you need a hyphen in "oversee"?

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“Don’t worry about it Number Two.”
comma after "it"

You know the comma in the last line is strange, and only because he's trying to grab breath, don't you? I might have used "wove" rather than "weaved", and find the "although many didn’t expect one" a bit superfluous in that context and form, but that's probably just me (like the split infinitive. Does anyone else even care?)
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