One of the things I’m doing this summer is going back through the Senta and the Steel Dragon series and creating an encyclopedia of the world.  I’m going to include this as an appendix in future editions, and I’ll post it here too.

While doing that today, I discovered something in Book 1: The Voyage of the Minotaur that I had forgotten.  Senta (the nine year old sorceress’s apprentice) appears in two scenes with Lieutenant Baxter (young naval officer).  I had remembered one of them and used it in a flashback scene in Book 4: The Young Sorceress.  The other, I had completely forgotten about.

Why is it important?  In The Sorceress and her Lovers, Senta ( the 21 year old sorceress) is involved in a sexual relationship with Baxter (the thirty something former naval officer).  Plenty of women in their twenties are married or engaged to men in their thirties, but it adds a different (uncomfortable) element, when they knew each other when she was 8 and 9.  That’s something worth exploring.