[Quiet Man Cometh]

I have to agree with you on the pacing. This was originally written for a writing challenge at the old boards and had a limit of 5000 words. I tried to expand it later but I'm having a hard time doing it. I crunched it up so much to make it fit that I'm having a hard time stretching it back out again. The guy who started the challenge said pretty much the same think about stuffing and epic into the confines of a short story.

The challenge itself was actually to write a fantasy battle that involved more than two people that worked in the story. I'm glad to know it came off well, especially given some of the conflict I had when it came to wording some of the events, like chopping down the tree, even if it was something so seemingly simple as using one sentence or two.

As for Razael, I don't actually know much about angels and what the names mean or refer to as far as the real world goes, I picked it because I liked it but I did want something that would bring the image of an angel to the reader for the purposes of the story. I have a partially written narrative from Razael's perspective that details some of his backstory as well as his relationship with Cor.