Clancy and Pae'kura Update

[rix_scaedu]

 There is another bit of Clancy and Pae'kura for my patrons over at Patreon.

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garden path

[thnidu]

I enjoy smelling the flowers. Nevertheless...

• Clancy, who’d been shown a picture of her husband by the ambassador’s wife,

> The only grammatically realistic reading of this is that the ambassador's wife showed Clancy a picture of Clancy's husband. Now, when the penny will drop is a tossup between thinking

"Hey, wtf, Clancy isn't married!"

and getting through reading and assimilating

«had sufficient presence of mind to say as she locked the outer airlock door, “Welcome aboard, your excellency."»

>One possible fix is
-> Clancy, recognizing the ambassador from the picture his wife had shown her, had sufficient...

> Another is the variant
->Clancy recognized the ambassador from the picture his wife had shown her, and had sufficient...

Re: garden path

[rix_scaedu]

Very possibly because I wrote it, I link the her to the ambassador's wife. However, you are right, it is either wrong or ambiguous.

When I get home I will consider how to fix it. (Currently at work and on my phone.)

Re: garden path

[rix_scaedu]

I have put in a fix and only need to copy it into the working document on my laptop- it's everywhere else.