“Right then,” thought Sid to Arthur, “where’s this spy?”
“Do you think us two is enough for this type of mission?”
“You want reinforcements?”
“It would be nice to have Alf the elf and his arrows and Biggs in his battlesuit.”
“Ahh,” ahhed Sid, “but he would have to have a steam battlesuit because this is a steampunk adventure.”
“Maybe.”
“What about having characters from The Sun thief to help you?” I suggested.
“You mean that big giant, Gunton?” asked Sid.
“Gunby.”
“He’s supposed to be half Hoo isn’t he?”
“Well, he could be like Kendra, a good Hoo.”
“Do they have them on this planet?”
“I could make it so.”
“Have you been watching Star Trek the Next Generation again?”
“I’ve lost my thread,” I said.
“What do you mean, a physical roll of cotton or your thread of thought?” asked Arthur.
“My thread of… (all I had to do was read what I’d written earlier to…) never mind about that, he could be related to Kendra and the 24.”
“How many references to your different books do you want in this work?”
“I could mention them all…”
“And bore the readers,” quipped Sid.
“OK then,” said I, “I’ll just mention them as jokes.”
