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This is an edited version of the story originally published on the Highlander lists and on my website from 2001-2003. The original story was written as a serial and as such, it had an immediate impact on readers, but lacked a certain polish, especially towards the end. I have long wanted to do a thorough rewrite of the whole story, to clean it up, fix story errors, and prune some of the deadwood. Putting this story into pdf format for printing allowed me to do that - I could even say, required it because the original was just too long. The original storyline is intact, although some of minor story points have been cut back or cut out, to bring balance to the whole thing and focus back on the original plot. Some of these bits have been turned into short stories that will be posted as part of a collection of short stories and sequels in the Miscon universe. Some other minor story bits, all post-delivery, have been scrapped because they detracted from the main story and just didn't work. I hope you enjoy this revised version as much as the original, and that if you're reading this story for the first time, you enjoy it as much as the initial readers did.
Thanks to my 1st Edition editors mecurtin and dswdiane for their wonderful help with editing the initial version of this story, and to my 2nd Edition editor, Kelly, for helping polish up this version. Any remaining errors in this story are my fault, not theirs.
Special thanks to the artists whose work appears here, Jubie and Osianna. Jubie created the beautiful Methos portrait shown later in the story, and Osianna created the marvelous cover and closing art. I would like to thank them both for their beautiful contributions to the story.
This story is quite obviously an alternate reality/timeline from the series and movies, deviating roughly around "A Modern Prometheus". Some canon from episodes after that may or may not have been incorporated, at my whim. Also, "Endgame" didn't happen, the Ahriman trilogy has been pushed back a year, and the less said about "Highlander: The Source" the better, because it's definitely not in this universe.
References to streets and other features of Paris are based on maps obtained from the internet and other reference sources, and also involve my "best guess" for features such as the best place to have a private sword fight. So my apologies to anyone more familiar with Paris if these guesses are ludicrous or just plain *wrong*. Pictures, artwork, floor plans, and songs referred to in this story can be found in a separate sequel to this story .
Thank you for reading and enjoy!
Picture by osianna. More fan art by her and other artist can be found on Page 1 of the Gallery.