Thank you again :)  It seemed it would be an added insult for Nuada to find himself in such a situation and Manning, of course, would quickly come to realise that whatever control he had wasn't such a great thing after all (Nuada not being the sort to just give in and make things easy for anyone, nevermind a human and particularly one like the poor director.)  These few chapters are actually the second rewrite and I'm currently looking at yet another one!  Somehow, the tone is not quite what I want it to be but I think with a further rearrangement of events and a bit more discipline around the narrative points of view, I might get there.  Cheers and once again, thanks! :)