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What an interesting premise! Although I still have to wonder what happened to Jinpei's bracelet...

Thank you! Great insight into team dynamics, where even with a chain of command, no one is free of responsibility or consequences. Funny thing, if it did turn out that Jinpei's bracelet ended up at a Galactor base, and could be tracked, then his mistake would instead be a tactical triumph.

Originally posted by lborgia88 Great insight into team dynamics, where even with a chain of command, no one is free of responsibility or consequences.

Can't agree more, or say it better! A well written, and interesting story! I could almost really hear Jinpei crying, "It's not my fault, this time!" Hope his bracelet was damaged enough to have been useless to Galactor's experts, at the end!

Hmmm... this seems like it could be K2P2 as well...

That's my guess, that it's k2p2.

After having a better and slower read through this story, something in it made me wonder if it might be written by Springie. Now I am left wondering if the artwork I originally thought was done by Springie, might have been created by one of our other resident artists? *Sigh * I guess I will have to wait another few days until all is revealed. Especially since no one seems to want to declare any guesses as being correct (or incorrect).

Originally posted by clouddancer *Sigh * I guess I will have to wait another few days until all is revealed. Especially since no one seems to want to declare any guesses as being correct (or incorrect).

Sorry, no revelations until December 26th.

Maybe I am remembering incorrectly that in previous years people seemed to be confirming in advance if a guess was correct. But then I also remember in previous years I did not get to read all the stories until AFTER the results were released. I am not sure why I was able to read everything this year.

This could be KT's?!

This was a great story and a great idea! Well written and easy to read! I can't decide who the author is on this one...I guess I'll have to wait and see...

Ok, I'm going to "out" myself before I get "outed"...I did it. I'm kind of pleased I managed to fool most of you, but well done Marie who managed to work it out. Thanks everyone for your comments too, I certainly enjoyed writing it, and I hope I managed to fulfill LB's request to her satisfaction.

Way to go KT, being able to keep your identity unknown.

Originally posted by KT1972 I'm kind of pleased I managed to fool most of you, but well done Marie who managed to work it out.

I was fooled. I really thought you'd done the fic for Springie! I should have realized that the use of words like "lorry" in the fic for Springie (therefore, written by someone in the UK) was a little too obvious... Thank you, KT!

Nicely done KT! Should have known it was yours by the tightness of your prose, but in my initial read I hadn't a clue. Good job!

Originally posted by KT1972 I'm kind of pleased I managed to fool most of you, but well done Marie who managed to work it out.

To tell the truth, guessing the authors is always a very difficult task for me in these Gift Exchanges! Every writer here is so awesomely talented! What might have helped me to downlist my question marks a bit was the fact that I was kind of able to decipher, even in the most minimalistic of ways, the sense of a particular author's style, in only a few of the fics! I must admit that Springie's and LB's change in the type of their usual submissions did throw me way off track, though! I'd be fortunate enough if I were to win a lottery the same way I guessed this one! ... as I said, every author did a superb job, and you weren't less, KT! I just adore your writing, as I adored this one ficlet of yours!

Thank you, Marie!