The Gingerbread House by Darkwolf

[teanndaorsa]

Part 12 of A Conventional Affair up tonight enjoy!

[teanndaorsa]

Part 13 of ACA up tonight, enjoy!

[throwaway140124]

These last two chapters have been the perfect dose of quiet not-exactly-domesticity after all the big moments and excitement up til now. It's been delightful to read, and you're doing an amazing job of showing both sides of this.

[Darkwolf]

These last two chapters have been the perfect dose of quiet not-exactly-domesticity after all the big moments and excitement up til now. It's been delightful to read, and you're doing an amazing job of showing both sides of this.

Thank you very much, I appreciate your kind words and I'm glad to see that people are still following this story after so much time.

[teanndaorsa]

And we round out Conventional Affair tonight with part 14: enjoy!

[llaallaa]

Thank you for the update. I had so much fun while read it. Never failed to make me grinned alone. I cant wait for the next update if it has one. Thanks again for the stories. Love it. 

[Darkwolf]

Hello everyone, though I might drop this here for any new readers or for any returning readers who might be confused onto the story order.  This little tale I've woven had grown far beyond what I initially expected and I think it might just keep growing as time goes on.  So, I thought I'd put together a little table of contents to help things along.

The main line thus far consists of three stories in the following order.  A fourth story is loosely planned at the moment, but that will a project for the far future most likely.
1 The Gingerbread House
2 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
3 A Conventional Affair

The various side stories are the most complicated by far and mostly explore the adventures of various side characters from the main stories.  It is recommended to have at least read The Gingerbread House for them to make sense, but it is not completely necessary.
1 Bloody Kiss, Blood and Lust (mostly self contained)
2 Chains of Ink
3 Tables Turned
4 A Night to Remember

A fifth side story called Best Served Cold is being worked on now and at some point I plan to re-post some very old stories that debuted on GaggedUtopia over 10 years ago once I clean them up a bit.  After that we'll have to see where the muse takes me.

[throwaway140124]

Wow! I wouldn't have expected to end this arc with a Claudia POV, but it's worked really well! It's amazing to be able to get another perspective on these characters and relationships that we've already learned so much about, and it really helps flesh things out and improve not just on those things that we see here, but so much more of the world in general! Looking forward to whatever you work on next

[Darkwolf]

Wow! I wouldn't have expected to end this arc with a Claudia POV, but it's worked really well! It's amazing to be able to get another perspective on these characters and relationships that we've already learned so much about, and it really helps flesh things out and improve not just on those things that we see here, but so much more of the world in general! Looking forward to whatever you work on next

Thank you.  As I was writing this story I debated several different ways to end it, but as I went I realized that for all of her importance to the narrative there were no chapters from Claudia's perspective.  Combined with the fact that her overall absence was an important plot point it all just sort of clicked and here we are.

Glad that you liked it in any case and stay tuned, I've definitely got more planned.

[Гость]

Hi Darkwolf,
thank you for your stories! I enjoyed A Conventional Affair and now I'm going to read everything from the beginning.

However there is one thing that bothers me. Please consider this a bug report rather than a criticism. The thing is, when Sofia says dorogoy, she should actually say dorogaya. The former is a masculine form used when addressing a man, the latter is a feminine form used when addressing a girl. Of course other characters don't know this, but she'd know if she's Russian.

[Darkwolf]

Unfortunate that we didn't catch that in the beta read.  Probably not possible to edit the already posted chapters, but I'll make sure to make the relevant corrections going forward.

Thanks, and I'm glad you've enjoyed things so far.