Good action chapter.
The story momentarily moves to China (!!) and the Green Count and his men get center stage.
Readers in Turin were particularly pleased, from the feedback I got at readings and social gatherings, finding a descendant of Count Amadeus (whose statue graces the square in front of Turin’s Town Hall) in the pages of my story.
In fact, I’m playing fast and loose with history here.
In this fictional timeline, Amadeus VI never got to create a state of Savoy, and his descendants fight as mercenaries for the French – the head of the family still holding the title of Green Count and displaying a green flag for his units.
I was pretty surprised at the positive reaction of my fellow citizens, ad my Green Count is a scoundrel and a turncoat – good withhis troops but highly pragmatic.
Not really the stuff that heroes are made of.
But there you have it – the guys really liked it, and I get requests for more stories centering on the Green Count and his ironclad Free Company, and their globetrotting campaigns (there’s a hint at a campaign in India, and more).
Who knows, maybe one of these nights…
