Forging the Blade, Part II Kithe and Kin by MacGeorge Rating: PG-13 HTML version, with graphics, can be found at: http://www.wordsmiths.net/MacGeorge/Boardwalk/kithe/kithe5.html Summary: In this epic covering the years immediately after Duncan's first death, Connor has to deal with his own life's complications and leave Duncan behind in Glencoe, but Martin Hyde is on the hunt. Part I and previous chapters of Part II, can be found at: http://www.wordsmiths.net/MacGeorge/Boardwalk/wilderness/we_index.html Acknowledgments: Cinel Durant and Killa have been bastions of support and help and advice (and Killa has provided some very cool screen captures). Other acknowledgements are at: http://www.wordsmiths.net/MacGeorge/Boardwalk/kithe/acknowledge.html Disclaimers: The usual. Not mine. Belong to Gregory Widen and Panzer/Davis, etc. Done only for my own amusement. Do Not Archive. Feedback of all kinds welcomed and appreciated. MacGeorge