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I enjoyed reading this. I found some hiccups and odd choice of words or format but overall i found it to be well written and well paced. A proper decent into madness story, framed nicely as a legend of old.
Thank You very much! Can You write something more about "odd choice of words"? I am not native English Speaker and I am willing to improve my language.
Sure! I’m not a native speaker either, so some suggestions may not be all that good.
The first one I noticed is in the first paragraph. I’m unsure if it’s a mistake or an obscure word, but when googling the word “pacrossct” I got no related results.
In the second paragraph both the word centuries and thousands of years are used. I’d suggest replacing thousands of years with millennia to keep it consistent. That may be a personal preference however.
The phrase:
This is a long sentence with a lot going on. It’s a bit difficult to parse the meaning of it and I think it would be beneficial to split it up a bit. Something like the following perhaps:
I tried to stay true to your phrasing except where it would cause repetition due to my changes or I felt it would otherwise lack an emphasis that the original had.
I think these were mostly what I noticed, though some of the parentheses also seemed a bit out of place to me.
Again I just want to reiterate that I really liked your story and this is just minor details. I hope I do not come off as overly nitpicky or negative.
I think it was mainly those two word choices that I noticed, as I got
Oh, it is obvious mistake, there should be just "pact". I remember correcting it, but it looks like it was not saved or something. I corrected it once again and looks like this time it sticked. Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention.