Friends Can Betray You, But With An

In The End, My Reasons For Moving Down The Timeline And Introducing A New Cast Have More To Do With Keeping Myself Entertained, On The Assumption That If I Get Bored, My Readers Are Going To Be Even More Bored.

Neal Had A Couple Of Good Ideas And They Fit Nicely, So That's The Way I Decided To Go.

The Issue Of The Betrayal Was So Central To That, I Felt The Need To Comment Upon It. My Choices Were To Ignore The Games And Put Them 'outside' Of Continuity Or To Integrate Them. I Chose The Latter.

The Past Can Be A Terrible Weight Bound To You By An Unbreakable Chain. You Can Drag It With You, Forever Looking Over Your Shoulder At What Holds You Back. Or You Can Let It Go And Move Forward. It’s Your Choice.

There Were Two Things Going On: 1) I Had Already Established In My Own Mind Where I Wanted To Go With The Next Series, And Having James Around As A Grey Eminence Would Have Complicated Matters. He Had Had An Amazing Life And It Was Time To Bid Him Good-bye.