and thrilling to hear, but these are held together by miles of trudging through the mud--sometimes literally--to get to those places. The adventures of others are always exciting, because they leave the dull parts out of the story in the telling.) So I thought I'd take the time to describe the adventures of some of those whom I have come to call friends, called friends largely because they are the only people I'm ever likely to see again after I say goodbye.
I do catch up with Dylan from time to time, but I'm his dad, and I don't know whether he always tells me the whole story. I've also met most of the earliest versers--Pete Adams, Dan O'Malley, Mary Fitzgerald, even Whisp and Dog--and I've taught a number of younger versers, including John Landar, James Del Greco, George Andrews, Bill Brighton--as well as my other boys. I've seen some of their accounts of what happened to them (and maybe you'd enjoy reading their versions); but I heard about them from other sources myself, and sometimes I have a different slant.
So I'm going to tell their stories, as well as I can in the order that I heard of them--after all, when you bounce from universe to universe, the sequence of events which happened in different worlds means nothing except in relation to before and after in your own consciousness. I remember that in one world, I ran into Henry in the late 1990's, who insisted that I was his teacher, Merlin; it was much later that Merlin was my teacher, and later still when I found the young Henry in the 1300's, and took him on as a magician's apprentice. But that's my story, and you can read about it in other places. These are the stories of others in the verse--here for your enjoyment...
I've also appended a file of papers which have come to me from various worlds, detailing the adventures of certain other versers whom I have attempted to identify with some success. These I have sorted by source rather than by character, but have noted to whom they belonged to the best of my ability. You may find these of interest as well.
