The Talisman's Trinket

I just got word that the short story "The Talisman's Trinket" has been posted on the Baen page ( http://baen.com/talismanstrinket.asp). I was rather surprised as I didn't expect to see it until December, but there it is.

I wonder if people who don't know the series will be able to follow it. The trick, of course, was to write something that interlaced with the end of God Stalk and yet stood alone. Eventually I'd like to write Patches' full story, and bring Jame back into it, back to Tai-tastigon. That may yet happen in the series, but I always also thought of it as a stand-alone YA novel. I wonder, though, if my style is adaptable to a younger audience. I've always written to please myself, which is to say that I've written the best I could, about complicated things that interest me. Well, we'll see. One day.

In the meantime I have the current novel to wrestle with. Talk about complicated ...! One thing that's held me up is envisioning Old Pantheon gods in Kothifir since they are based on variations of the Four, some actually predating the Four, as Gran Cyd suggests in HP. That is, that there were many versions of the Four before Mother Ragga and the other three suddenly became their prime avators with the arrival of the Kencyr temples. Any thoughts or suggestions?