This feels a little off. Maybe "begging under her breath for it to get moving"
begging it underneath her breath to get moving
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I see. That does make a convincing argument. I shall consider it!
We agree there! The dialogue can always be tightened up, especially here. I’ll work on that. Thanks for all the notes. I really appreciate your help. You smart.
Just curious, what makes you want to change the "through" to "by" or "via"? I’m not entirely opposed to via, but I just wanted to know what fueled that suggestion. I feel like through works fairly well as it is, but I’m always open to smart notes!
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There is an entire chapter later that tells their backstory in more detail, so I don’t want to go into too much. This chapter is more of a prologue that introduces Yintal. And he’s been chasing this giant for a long time. He wants him dead and doesn’t want to waste time. I wanted it to be sudden and quick.
It does, it’s just clunky garbage. "without something to offer" might be better?