Tonight and yesterday evening I spent time working on part two of the Aeroplane City trilogy: DangerMan.  Mostly I focused on cleaning up dialogue.  I've also considered the love affair between Dalton and Araby.  I have been very careful to make Araby a lady.  But behind every lady there should be a flaw.  Some people have drugs, others have wanderlust, and with yet others it is wanting more than what you have and never really appreciating what you have until it is gone. 

For me Araby is beyond any of those flaws and I must find something in her that makes unlocking the secret in finding her a mystery that Dalton spends time to learn before he can find her specifically.

Strange enough Dalton meets up with Araby right away in part two.  If you've read part one, you know he loses her and is left standing in the rain.  That rain is however a cleansing rain from which he is almost rejoicing.  So when she steps back into his life only briefly in the beginning of part two you get a big sense of why she and Dalton are parted but you still feel there is a mystery there as to why they can't be together. 

I've learned in my life a you can love a woman, and she will use your love like a tool against you.  And foolishly enough you assume that woman loves you so you allow yourself to be used.  The best of us men eventually catch on to a woman that does this and if we can step out of love we can be twice as dangerous as the woman whom would do us in. 

Dalton won't face this reality.  I need to give him a greater challenge.  Let's face it, he and Araby love each other.  In my story it is one sided love.  That doesn't work in a true love story such as Dalton's.  Dalton faces a greater heartbreak, love that is meant to be, but held apart by forces they must fight to reunite. 

I have made it a complex battle.  Simple Romeo and Juliet won't due. 

DangerMan is action and futuristic, but at it's core and soul it is a love story.  The love story that I never achieved in life. It is like I've said in earlier articles, a truly dangerous man is one that has lost everything.