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AN: So after doing some re-reading, Novak seems to have used the term ‘rifles,’ but not in a manner that paid any attention at all to the period or difference between rifles and muskets. Given that she got a fair number of minor details wrong, I’m just going to treat it like she used the wrong...

AN: I had originally intended for this to be the last chapter, but I found enough content before the last battle that I'm posting this stand-alone. ((())) Bang. The problem with pistols, was that they were only accurate over very short ranges. Hitting a target at all consistently past twenty...

AN: I'd wanted to get this out in Febuary, but poor time management is one of my failings far too often. ((())) Dover was warm. Not as warm as Madeira had been, bu so much warmer than Winter in the Scottish highlands that Non found it hard to care. Even more, unlike Madeira, her siblings lived...

That's more or less what I was aiming for.

((())) Crack. “Well,” Harcourt said, looking from the target to where Non was holding a pistol and shaking her wrists furiously, “Don’t ever try to fire with one hand; you’d probably break a wrist, now reload it and try again.” Pistols weren’t accurate to very long ranges, but hitting the...

Which is particularly sad, because in the first book, they certainly aren't cruel. All through the first book, every Dragon Captain except Rankin has very clear affection for their Dragon, and Rankin is despised by everyone in the Corps for how he treats his Dragon. Hell, even the courier...

Instead, this series will have a more rational take on British Dragon/human relations. As best I can tell, Naomi Novak was, when writing her first novel, trying to keep things as much to real history as was reasonable, and thus minimize the impact of Dragons on culture and society. When she got...

AN: Still pushing this through towards completion. ((())) “I’m Roland,” the other young redhead said, “And if you weren’t already Captain Laurence’s favorite, I’d be lead runner on Temeraire’s crew. ‘M not saying that to challenge you, just so you know I’m the best of the runners who hadn’t...

The first book is really the only solidly good one. The second was decent, I can't remember if I even finished the third, definitely didn't the fourth. The theme that makes the first book good, is what this fic is named after. 'Dragon Air Force' is the flashy element of appeal, but the real...

Thanks for helping make sure I learn something new today. Went and changed it to 'dress sword,' as that was one of the alternate names listed.

AN: I'm not terribly happy with this. It's been written in a disjointed manner over the course of far too many months. It needed to get posted so I could move the story forward though, so here it goes, even if I usually expect better of myself than this. I'll also reiterate that this is a story...

Thank you. There are some Fanfics for it here and there, but it's very hard to find good ones, especially long ones, and especially good long ones that aren't also slashfic.

AN: There's a somewhat important scene I didn't include in this, but it fits reasonably well if slightly asynchronously in the next chapter. ((())) The flight to Loch Laggan passed in a tense silence, one that Non wasn’t sure what to make of. The Cap’n was not an overly chatty man, so it...

AN: This chapter didn’t flow like I expected, but I think it turned out reasonably well. ((())) It was evening by the time that Angela and Non returned to their carriage, and moved to leave town. Angela watched with some bemusement as two of Mr. Porter’s sons had to physically pry Iona from...

AN: Temeraire and Laurence are both so wonderfully polite. ((())) “But it doesn’t make any sense,” Temeraire insisted, “I am not yet a year from my egg, and I can understand long division well enough; why can this not be taught to all young dragons and humans?” “Not all’n us grows as fast ‘s...

AN: So, this story is very much meant to be read by those who've read His Majesty's Dragon. It operates on the assumption that the reader has, and unlike some of my other projects, does not try to introduce completely unfamiliar readers to the setting; it actually somewhat relies on knowing the...