During our brief commercial break, I opt for the noise being Poe's "Raven", thusly:
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--
Only this and nothing more."
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And VonApist: as HW3 pointed out, your grasp of English is much better than many of our "locals" here in the States. I recently visited Iceland for a gamer fanfest, and was humbled to learn that all citizens there learn Icelandic and English at a minimum in school, and typically at least one or two European languages through secondary school. I feel lucky to have had 8 years of Spanish. And were it not for having joined a college fraternity, I could not read the Greek alphabet as single letters; I do not comprehend the tongue at all.
The very minor differences between your writing style of English and what might typically be expected are hardly worth mentioning; the story itself is so engrossing that it makes the reader (at least in my case) keep reading ahead. The suspense is killing me. And I cannot hold my breath this long!
Great job!!
