All Comments on 'Limit of Authority'

Good story with a fairy tale quality, but a bit cold for all that.

I enjoyed your story of someone behaving well and looking out for others with no quid quo pro.

For the read.

I submitted this story as an Earth Day entry 'Escaping Cybele' in April. Shortly afterwards I upgraded my computer and lost the final version when transferring the files. I thought I hadn't submitted it and found a late draft which had been titled Limit of Authority before I edited it to become an Earth Day entry as 'Escaping Cybele'. So I submitted the slightly shorter Limit of Authority in July. Apologies.

When the protagonist first spots Eleyna on the assembly line, "Eleyna is tall and blonde with a slight build." But when they're in the hotel room, " Her brown hair brushed my face."

Otherwise, a most enjoyable story.

Thank you anonymous. I hadn't noticed BUT gives me an idea for a development. Maybe her forged papers showed her as a blonde and she had to keep colouring and/or wear headscarves to cover her roots but her natural colour was brown. When she was on a genuine student visa shwe no longer needed to pretend she was blonde and could go to her natural colour, and that was a sign of her increasing coinfidence in her future...