Sunday, November 10, 2013

Under Pressure... Moi?

Glancing back at old Blog entries, I happened to notice that on December 23rd of 2012 I had 13,320 words of LSODM written. This was a good thing to notice. It means that, with 18,504 words of Book 9 already spewed forth onto the page/screen, I am well ahead of where I was last year — and I finished LSODM in PLENTY of time, did I not?

Well, actually, no, I didn't. It was pretty much down to the wire, as they say. I couldn't afford to make ANY mistakes with LSODM, because I had no time to do anything resembling a significant rewrite. But at least I know it can be done. At least I know I can do it. Now all I have to do is hope I DO do it.

Pressure pressure pressure... It's everywhere. I don't actually mind pressure. It's a handy tool to make you sit down and write, after all. And I have no one to blame for these onrushing deadlines but me, because I'm the one who agreed to them in the first place. I'm the one who said "Hey, let's collect all the short stories, and I'll write a few more brand new ones, and we can publish in the summer before the final book!" And what a wonderful idea that was. What a magical, wonderful idea, to schedule the writing of short stories at the same time as I've scheduled the writing of a book. How clever that was.

I had wanted to include ten new stories in the collection. I STILL want to do ten — but the fact is, I might not be able to. I may only be able to do five. I want to tell a tale of the Dead Men during the war. I want to tell the tale of Billy-Ray Sanguine and what he did when he was recovering from the sword-wound that Valkyrie inflicted on him in The Faceless Ones. I want to show you how Val met Caelan for the first time. But most of all, I want to go back to Skulduggery and Valkyrie, back before the screaming and the killing and the darkness. I want to see them having fun again, before the death and the destruction and the heartache and the loss. The collection will be out mere months before the final book, after all... I want you to enter into Book 9, fully aware of how good it used to be between them.

And then I want to shatter what remains of your souls.

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Snow said...

(( we're reading about Sadako and the thousand paper cranes in japanese!!))

((not here!))

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Mm...

[Looks at the smashed glass]

[Blinks]

#ChaseForBook9

Noelle said...

No? Okay... *scoots closer to the fire again, being careful to not jostle her bruised sides too terribly* *swallows, her neck stiff and sore* *imagines her neck is black and blue by now*

Noelle said...

((I may or may not be watching Thor)

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Okay fine I won't go

Ravel: Thank you Zaf.

*lays head against shivering* My head hurts

Ravel: they said it would Zaf. *kisses cheek* I hope you're feeling better.

Mmm I feel better.....*smiles*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

((I'm sorry, I'm getting too tired to think. I should probably go now...))

#ChaseForBook9

Noelle said...

((Okay Fabs... *huggles*))

Noelle said...

*hugs Dimka, almost in tears now*

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Ravel: excellent! *hugs clloser* to see Adra?

Sure....*lets him lead to the lab*

Noelle said...

((In actually by the fire pit...))

*glances at her reflection in a pocket mirror, slowly sliding her coat off to look at the deep bruises up and down her arms, lacing up to her neck, and down to her chest and stomach* *winces*

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

Hiai

Snow said...

(( SADAKO AND THE THOUSAND PAPER CRANES IS AMAZING!!! i'm on page 33 and everyone else is on like page 6...))

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

AWESOME :D

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Firepit

Ravel: oh *takes to firepit*

Noelle said...

((hi Jubi!))

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

HAI GUYS! *SUPERMEGATACKLEHUGSOFDOOM*

Snow said...

LOLOL

Noelle said...

*tucks her mirror away, turning for her jacket to cover up again*

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Hey Adra *is close to Ravel*

Ravel: Hello Adra *glances at Zaf* Aren't you Necromancers used to the cold?

Noelle said...

You are only used to the cold if you live with it, Erskine

Snow said...

(( ZAFFY AND RAVEL, SITTING IN A TREE, K-I-S-S-I-N-G))

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Ravel: but they do....

Not always

Noelle said...

*rolls her eyes, turning to the fire, thinking of the harsh winters of her younger years*

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

((Snow..*blushes*))

Ravel: Insane

Am not!

Ravel: *smirks* Adra your fox is better I hope?

Noelle said...

He's... Managing. Again *raises her hand, a blue symbol etched into it* I'm absorbing his pain, so as far as I know, he is alright

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Ravel: I guess it's better then nothing.

So what did you do with Hyde? *sits with Ravel on a log still close to him actually cold*

Noelle said...

I transported him to my lab for now... He's safe. *glances at her phone* And apparently still in his cell

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Ravel: for now...

Me: dont-

Hyde: *is trying to find a way out of the cell*

Noelle said...

((Hang on...I might suddenly disappear for a bit...))

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

((Okay well if you're nkt back by quarter to 10 imma sleep k?))

The Grave of a Coward said...

(I absolutely positively cannot stay, but I would like to know what happened to my new and off-putting friend Ioux . . ?)

Noelle said...
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Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

((Oh gods... And Anni well Fabi left so you probably won't meet Ioux))

Noelle said...

((I have no idea what happened..))


Star here Zaf... *gives her Dimka to hold* I'm serious. You don't know a god damn thing about fighting. You're a dead woman if you go in there.

Ravel, make sure she doesn't go get herself killed...

*walks for her lab*

The Grave of a Coward said...

(Oh well.
I'll be off now. Goodbye!

talking, laughing, living lives we never had
shadows passing to and fro before golden street lights
mindless and unconcerned, flocking like sheep
unaware and painless, concerned only with each passing fad
while we alone stack night after night
of ceaseless vigil, that they might enjoy their sleep

be at peace and at rest, little town beneath the stars
the radio tower blinking red against the darkness
nobody sees it yet every radio hears
down winding roads to nowhere still roam silent cars
down streets like dry veins through a dusty carcass
confronting their own and others’ fears

sitting by bedsides of dying friends
enemies, heros, all achieve the same ends
the shadows melting through our hands, ripping
life and love, every shadow tells a tale fresh and dripping
the shadow on floor when there’s nothing that would a shadow make
the shadow of the moon at night when no one else is awake
the shadows under his eyes as he slowly rots away
his mind alert but soul fading to gray)

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

As I said I asked Niccolò and- *holds the fox and is immediatly won over by cuteness*

Ravel: I'll watch her, I can fight even if she can't.

Hyde: *is furiously trying to get out*

Noelle said...

((..,I'm sorry I have to go I can't do this anymore tonight))

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

((Okay I'll just go to bed I hope...you feel better Adra.))

Noelle said...

Okay...

I really hope someone is here right about now..

Noelle said...

*whispers* I just need a frienddd

Noelle said...

Niooooooo *falls to the ground* *hugs nothing* At least I still have you

Noelle said...

Hmm...well that is... Unfortunate... *lays down next to her fox and falls asleep*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Hello?

Apparently the right thing to do when your daughter is exhausted is to take her out to shop for boots. I'm not complaining, though. They were nice boots.

#ChaseForBook9

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Adra? [hugs]

#ChaseForBook9

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

I'm sorry.

#ChaseForBook9

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

Hello?

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

*hugs Adra (if you're still here)*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Hi Jubi-bean...

#ChaseForBook9

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

Hola Fabiola :) *Supermegatacklehugsofdoom*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

How're you? [hugs]

#ChaseForBook9

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

Ok I guess. All my homework is done so that's the good part. But school is tomorrow which is the bad part.
And since good+bad=Ok (sometimes), then I AM OK! :)

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

How are YOU?

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...
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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

Wbd

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

I'm...

Good-- I have new boots. If Tanith wanted to be a pirate with warm feet, they are the boots she would get.

Bad-- I'm tired and stressed about schoolish things.

Good-- I have some Halloween-themed fruit snacks.

Bad-- They aren't really improving my mood.

So I guess I'm alright...

#ChaseForBook9

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

Well I hope your mood manages to improve... :-/

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Thanks... [hugs]

#ChaseForBook9

Snow said...

(( *writes about mysterious things*))

Jophiel said...

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/daleks-to-invade-buckingh
am-palace/story-fni0xqll-1226757750111

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

((Hi Snow...))

#ChaseForBook9

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[hugs Deathy and goes to look at the article]

#ChaseForBook9

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

I WOULD do something weird to make everything happy and such.. But I'm too tired to think of something atm.

Snow said...

ASDFGHJKL!!! DEATHY!!! that is the best artical ever. how did ya find it?

Jophiel said...

Mum emailed me.

I'm going to show you all of my wall.

Snow said...

this is a suggestion from one of the best websites ever:

Jump into someones closet screaming, "THERES NO NARNIA IN HERE!"

Snow said...

Stare at something behind someone and scream in terror and run away.

LOL

Snow said...

At 11:12 everyday randomly start laughing and then at 11:13 stop and act like nothing happened.

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

OMG Death. That's brilliant xD

Jophiel said...

Gimmie a sec...

Snow said...

In a full elevator, say: "So, I bet y'all are wondering why I've gathered you here today."

i am loving this site...

Jophiel said...

Here. I'm too lazy to move.

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

That's really cool! :D

S'okay, Jubi.

#ChaseForBook9

Snow said...

best wall ever... i'd show you some of my wall but... meh, i'm in the lounge room and i'm too lazy...

Snow said...

*studies sentence* you know, i think thats he weirdest thing i've ever written...

Jophiel said...

I punched a hole in that painting. It looks so much better now.

Jophiel said...

And yes, that thing hanging in the snap-lock bag is a shotgun shell and it's bearings.

Snow said...

MY WALL!! --->

i'll do three post with different pics. because i have a big wall. and i didn't even get one of my door...

the big blacked out bit is my name...

Snow said...

AND ANOTHER BIT OF WALL!! -->

WITH DOCTOR WHO!!!

Snow said...

AND MY LAST BIT OF WALL!!! -->

XD

i have to say, my door has more stuff on it then all of that combined...

Jophiel said...

http://www.takethislollipop.com

Have Facebook up when you do this. It doesn't actually touch it, it just looks through it.

Snow said...

why the hell did i just do that?? XD

Snow said...

just... look at this site... you wont regret it, i promise:

http://www.randomthingstodo.com/#208611

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Sorry I poofed!

#ChaseForBook9

Snow said...

this is so derek landy style:

Throw skittles at someone and yell "TASTE THE RAINBOW!"

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Luciana. :-)

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Snow said...

XD

Snow said...

Run up to a couple in the park and scream " I'm your son/daughter from the future".

XD

Snow said...

Pretend this Friday is 'Make Someone Feel Awkward Day' and ask your teacher(s) if they shower naked.

omg who would do that?

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

That's... Interesting.

#ChaseForBook9

Snow said...

Tell your crush " Shake that butt" in Spanish. Hand them a banana. Walk away. Look back and watch.

who the hell in their right mind would do that?? i mean, really?

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Oh, I don't hang around that place no more
I'm tired of wearing circles in the floor
And I don't carry myself very well
I've gotten so much braver, can you tell?

So what if it hurts me?
So what if I break down?
So what if this world just throws me off the edge
My feet run out of ground?
I gotta find my place, 
I wanna hear my sound
Don't care about all the pain in front of me
'Cause I'm just trying to be happy

And I line my secrets up all one by one
I put 'em all away when I was done
And I would really love to hear your voice sometime
To close a little distance in my mind

So what if it hurts me?
So what if I break down?
So what if this world just throws me off the edge
My feet run out of ground?
I gotta find my place, 
I wanna hear my sound
Don't care about all the pain in front of me
'Cause I'm just trying to be happy

Where have you been all these years?
How could you just disappear?
And when
Did you stop
Missing me?

#ChaseForBook9

Snow said...

*claps* fab, thats amazing

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

I didn't write it.

Just sort of... Rearranged it.

The songs are both called Happy. One's by Leona Lewis, one's by Brandi Carlile.

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Snow said...

XD

well, they're great. *hugs*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[hugs back]

[wonders if I should roleplay]

#ChaseForBook9

Snow said...

*huggles fab* g2g, bye!

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Bye.....

#ChaseForBook9

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Have you ever listened to your heart
And found a path that not many would take
But even then, it's twisted at the start
And at the end, if you make a mistake

Have you ever wondered why your brain
Is twisted all together like a web
Of rainbow colors, tears and blood and pain
And all the happiness that you have left

Have you ever looked at your own eyes
Those whirlpools that show them you inside
And maybe then, they'll hear your silent cries
For help you know you'll never, ever find

Have you ever wondered why your face
Can stay as calm as undisturbèd stream
When all your world's shifting out of place
And all those thoughts, you don't know what they mean

Have you ever listened to your heart
And found a path that not many would take
But even then, it's twisted at the start
And at the end, if you make a mistake

#ChaseForBook9

Sapphire Iota (S/ Cam) said...

Hi *hugs Fabi*

Sapphire Iota (S/ Cam) said...

Oh.
Right.
That was an hour ago XD

Duck said...

HEY SAPH!!!!!!

*huggles*

Duck said...

Oh.
Right.
That was 24 minutes ago XD

Sapphire Iota (S/ Cam) said...

Duck! *huggles* *pokes*

Sapphire Iota (S/ Cam) said...

Don't copy me D:

Sapphire Iota (S/ Cam) said...

(I didn't mean it)
What's a good, happy song?

Duck said...

I'M SHOCKED!
I didn't copy!
I had 24 minutes not an hour.

:P

Sapphire Iota (S/ Cam) said...

*Glares and pokes Duck again*
I've convinced my irl friend Scarlet onto the blog, and she should be here any minute...

Sapphire Iota (S/ Cam) said...

Ducky?

Sapphire Iota (S/ Cam) said...

:(
*Disappears*

Duck said...

REAPPEARS!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry 'bout that. It was unavoidable I'm afraid.

Mistical Future said...

Hi everyone!

How are you all?

Mistical Future said...

... well I've come in very late ... I should have checked the time

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Sadness no delay....oh well

Star Inkbright said...

HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I made a plot change to some of the story in my head! :) I think it's better now, but idk. I might take it out again . . .

#ChaseForBookNine

Star Inkbright said...

OH MY GOSH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

My friend lent my the second season of The Walking Dead, because I'd watched the whole of the first one, and I was just admiring the box and the discs (because, you know, it has all theses new pictures to look at and stuff. It was like seeing a new book cover, but better, because there was more; like, there's a picture on each disc. :) And it's different to the last one!!! Which makes sense because it's a different DVD!!! And it isn't surprising at all!!! But I'm still excited about having a brand new old lent broken DVD to stare at, because my life is sad!!!), and one th first disc, there's the main character, looking exactly like he did on the back of the season one box (same pose, I mean. Holding his gun in the same way), and on the second one, there's a random zombie, eating what could possibly be a bloody bit of human and looking, you know, like a zombie, and on the third disc, there's the main character, with his wife, with whatshisname in the background who used to be the main character's college and was with the main character's wife when they both thought the main character was dead, and then I had to take the third disc out to see the fourth disk underneath it properly, and the fourth disc is another zombie, BUT YOU SEE, I THINK I KNOW WHO THAT ZOMBIE IS!!!! I MEAN, I KNOW WHICH PERSON HE WAS! I THINK! SO I'M PARTIALLY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AND I'M ALSO REALLY ANNOYED AT THE DVD FOR POSSIBLY SPOILING THAT FOR ME. I MEAN, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT??? WHY WOULD YOU SPOIL YOUR OWN SHOW???
. . . But then again, he might not be who I think he is. In which case, it could all be good. :)

#ChaseForBookNine

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

I think i just died laughing...

Holly: Did you see the death threats i got from your Minions?

Derek: Yes I did aren't they CUTE?

Star Inkbright said...

*colleague

He didn't used to be the main character's college. :P *kills brain*

#ChaseForBookNine

Star Inkbright said...

@Zaf: *laughs* XD

Hi! :)

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Star Inkbright said...

And the good thing is, the only reason it seems to be rated eighteen is because it "Contains strong bloody violence and gory horror", and I'm fine with that so it's all good and I'm pretty sure my parents will be fine with that. :)

#ChaseForBookNine

Star Inkbright said...

Sorry, just ranting here. :)

*gets out homework planner and stares at it*

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Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Ewww dried mango chips...

Star Inkbright said...

@Zaf: . . . That actually sounds like it might be nice, to me. :) Well, I liked dried banana when I was, like, six, so . . . :P

#ChaseForBookNine

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Oh gods it was nasty....we just tried them in history....

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

The phone call came only a few minutes later. Janis listened to it, then hung up without saying a word.
I'll find a way to bring you back, she thought, It'll be okay.
In her heart, though, Judith knew better. She and her sister had always believed that when you died, it was your time, and you should honor that. That didn't mean you shouldn't try to avoid dying, it just meant that once you did, you were dead.
Janis, just go find Sandra.
But...
Go back to the hospital afterwards. I'm not going anywhere. She knew she was going to stay here, in this dream world, maybe help other people escape. She didn't want to say it directly, though. Not now.
If you say so...
Janis...?
Yeah?
See if you can be early. I'm not sure if ghosts are supposed to have visions, but I think... I think they're coming for her, too.

#ChaseForBook9

Star Inkbright said...

Damnyness . . .

I have this French homework, and we have all these questions that we have to answer. Last week, she was showing us how the expand a question so we could go on about stuff for a whole paragraph. However, if I do that for each question, I'll just end up repeating myself. So idk if she wants us to answer all the questions at once in a paragraph, or if she wants us to do a simple sentence for each one, or a detailed paragraph for each one . . .

I think I might try and do a detailed paragraph for each one, because she can't tell me off for doing more homework that I've been told, and also my friend was talking about how she'd answered one fo the questions the other day and it seemed like she'd devoted a paragraph just to that question . . .

#ChaseForBookNine

Star Inkbright said...

*hugs Lantern* I love your plot. :)

@Zaf: Okay. :)

#ChaseForBookNine

Star Inkbright said...

The thing is though, it's so much WORK. There's ten questions . . . D:

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Star Inkbright said...

I AM A LAZY PERSON. I CANNOT BE BOTHERED TO DO THIS.

#ChaseForBookNine

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Thanks, Stararawr. [hugs]

#ChaseForBook9

Star Inkbright said...

Mwahahaha.

*might be procrastinating just a bit*

#ChaseForBookNine
.

Star Inkbright said...

The only thing you should thank me for is truthfulness. :)

#ChaseForBookNine

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[Does not have any particularly good advice for the homework, sorry...]

#ChaseForBook9

Star Inkbright said...

That's fine. :)

*is doing it now, anyway*

#ChaseForBookNine

Star Inkbright said...

*is trying to explain in French how in my old house the kitchen and the bathroom were in the basement, so half the window was underground (because in the garden you went down some stairs to get to the top of the kitchen and bathroom windows, but I haven't put that. Yet. I might attempt it), and how the front door was on the ground floor and then you went down the stairs to get to the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe I'll give up on the last sentence. I could say about how we only lived in half the original house . . . Idk if that would make sense though.

#ChaseForBookNine

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

My Twitter family is so odd

Star Inkbright said...

@Zaf: You're odd. :) In a good way, I mean. :) Most Bloglandians are odd. :)

#ChaseForBookNine

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Yaaaay!!!

Star Inkbright said...

:)

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Star Inkbright said...

My parents used to live somewhere in the Netherlands before I was born and I've forgotten the name of it . . . *scowls*

I think it began with D.

Maybe.

*sighs*

#ChaseForBookNine

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

"Judith, are you alright?" The voice wasn't Janis, and it was coming from outside the little burrow, in the dream-reality. The dream-reality.
Judith opened her eyes to see Abby and Sandra peering in.
"You...started crying," Abby said apologetically. "We can leave you alone, I know your sister's death must have been--"
Judith shook her head furiously. She was the one who was dead, and Janis was alive. They had it backwards.
Judith. Judith!
She closed her eyes and reached out again, finding Janis and seeing through her eyes.

She was on the floor of the hospital, her left knee shattered. Judith had been right, they'd were come for Sandra, and they hadn't liked having someone in their way. She was still throwing things at them, but it was useless, the three large men simply dodged the items or caught them and threw them back with three times the force.
They were disconnecting Sandra from the instruments, carefully disabling the heart rate monitor so it wouldn't tell the whole hospital she was dying. She pulled off one of her boots and threw it, this time at the red button marked "For emergency use only." It fell short by about an inch. She pulled off her other boot, aiming carefully...


"What's going on?" Judith snapped back to being herself and blinked up at Sandra's worried face. She didn't know how much danger she was in, Judith thought bitterly.
She reached back in the cave and grabbed a knife. That was the nice thing about the dream-world, you could do stuff like that.
"Judith...?" Abby gently pulled her out of the burrow, paling slightly as she saw the knife. "We're here for you, okay?"
Judith shook her off, raising the knife and plunging it into Sandra's chest.

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Katy A said...

'And then I want to shatter your souls' Oh thanks so much, Derek. So kind of you!

Star Inkbright said...

!!!

Oh. Good Judith! :)

:)

#ChaseForBookNine

Maralie Lily Charm said...

I BOUGHT SALUTE

Star Inkbright said...

@Mara: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! :)

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Maralie Lily Charm said...

It's amazing :)

Homework is hard though:/

Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

We had this brilliant mix up with our english teacher. He told us not to read on in Lord of the flies, then forgot to tell us to finish chapter 1. So today when we were supposed to have read it, none of us had the courage to tell him he hadn't told us to do it.

It was half terrifying, half amusing.

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Star Inkbright said...

@Trip: O_O Okay?
Half terrifying, half amusing, sounds like it describes it exactly. :)

@Mara: Homework is, often. :/ *poofed, because I was bored of mine so I decided to go look at th word count for Nix and Mist, then got distracted reading a bit, then got distracted commenting, then got distracted looking at Zath and Nix's YouTube channels, then realised how distracted I'd got and came back, and THAT is why I haven't commented for a while*

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Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Trip thats what im reading

The Grave of a Coward said...

Is there anybody at home?

The Grave of a Coward said...

I see there is not. Well then, I'll be on my way.

Star Inkbright said...

I am, Annika!!! :)

@Zaf: YOU SHOULD BE READING GONE INSTEAD. EVIL SCHOOLS. :O

I read it ages ago, so I can't give you an opinion on it. When I've read it again, I can. Hello!

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Star Inkbright said...

. . . The Lord of the Flies, that is. Not Gone. :P

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Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Lord of the Flies is boring

Noelle said...

I might be here...

I don't knowzz

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Hi Adra!

Noelle said...

Hi..

Star Inkbright said...

@Zaf: If you say so. :)

. . . Like I said, I haven't read it in ages, but I imagine it's one of those books (gosh, it feels weird not to be typing in French) that you have to think about more . . . like His Dark Materials and Chaos Walking and things. Although Chaos Walking is awesome because of many other reasons too. And Skulduggery Pleasant is one of those book series you think about to an extent, but it's more an . . . immediate book, where you sort of immense yourself in the immediate surroundings of it and are taken on this amazing adventure of jepicness. And that's why you may not like the other type of books so much (although let me stress there's a lot of overlap). :) And that's why I have to read some of what I formerly classed as more boring books again now I'm older, because I know I'll get more from them.
And now I'm rambling.
But yes. :)

. . . Gone is more like SP, imo. Idk, my opinion'll probably change. I think about it and it changes. But if it did change, it would be "Gone is more like SP" with a lot of expansion and clarification, so yeah . . .
Plus Gone is just awesome.
And yeah. :)
. . . No, Gone has more overlap than SP. I've decided. And the writing styles are very different.

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Star Inkbright said...

Hi Adra! :)

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Star Inkbright said...

I can hear my friend in my head telling me to stop analysing it and just accept that it's awesome. XD

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Noelle said...
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Star Inkbright said...

What would you call our village shop? I mean, if you were typing the word into wordreference.com to translate it into French, what would you type? It sells bread and milk and eggs and magazines and sweets and blah. It's like a mini-supermarket, but it's not a supermarket, because it's too small, so what IS it?

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Noelle said...

A bakery?

Star Inkbright said...

*hugs Adra* :/

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Star Inkbright said...

. . . No . . .

Bakeries are places that bake stuff.

Like sausage rolls and buns and bread and mmmm . . .

But it just, you, sells bread at the back, and then it has ice lollies and milk and eggs and flour and caster sugar and sweets and chocolate bars and magazines and all the other stuff on the shelves I never see because I'm never looking . . .

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Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

*hugs Adra^

Noelle said...

Corner store?

Duck said...

Instead of a SUPERmarket, it would just be a market.
Or a convenience store.
Or a dairy for New Zealanders.
Or mabey just a store.
Or a shop.

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

*gives Adra a Supermegatacklehugofdoom*


and Hai :3

Star Inkbright said...

@Adra: If you translate 'corner store' into English, you get 'corner shop', which is what we call it half the time, but wordreference.com only does single words, as far as I know. -_-
*tries it*

@Duck: No, because markets are like the outside thingies. *nods*

*tries 'convenience store'*

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Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Hiya!


Weeeee

Star Inkbright said...

OH HEY!

Corner shop came up. :) Down in the depths of meanings.

You put 'shop' in, and somewhere down there you get a translation for 'bull in a china shop'. XD

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Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

I think i wanna write. Not SP, I want to...no it sounds stupid

Star Inkbright said...

corner shop n UK (small local store épicerie (du coin) nf


*nods*

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Star Inkbright said...

*store)

@Zaf: I dislike writing fanfic, myself, anyway. :) And it doesn't matter if it sounds stupid. If you want to write it, go for it. :)

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Noelle said...

Shop ,,

Star Inkbright said...

@Adra: Shop. :)

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Star Inkbright said...

*looks at French* Idk if I can be bothered to do any more.

Oh gosh.

But now I have to email it.

I hate emailing things to teachers . . .

*hides*

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Noelle said...

Yeah,,

Star Inkbright said...

@Adra: Comma comma?

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Noelle said...

chameleon

Star Inkbright said...

*laughs*

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Maralie Lily Charm said...

Tú riamh thug mé bláthanna
Ná siúl mé i mo uair an chloig is dorcha
Agus d'fhág tú sé ró-mhall
Anois mothaíonn mo chroí rud ar bith, aon rud i túir

Towers i nGaeilge :)

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

CHAMELEON!
I have a chameleon :3

Star Inkbright said...

@Mara: I did not understand that AT ALL, but . . .

oh wait.

*flicks to Google Translate tab*

. . . That's amazing!!!! *hugs* :) Well done. :) :) :)

Isn't it beautiful when you have something and you don't know what it is and then you REALISE? :)

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Star Inkbright said...

Mara's a Charmeleon. XD

Hey Jubi! :)

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Noelle said...

Comma chameleon

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

OOOOH CHAMELEON MARA! WHEE *runs around in circles*

Maralie Lily Charm said...

Thanks Star:) *hugs*

Some of the words might be mixed up slightly, because translate and the actual correct way to say it in Irish are two very different things, but I tried... :P

Yeah... I wonder why people think the Irish language is "beautiful" though. It isn't really, compared to a lot of other ones...

Let me see if I can try another song...


I'm the Charmeleon yo

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

oh and
HAAAAIIII STAAAAR AND MARAAAAA AND ADRAAAAA AND ZAFFYYYYY AND UM UM UM *checks to see who else is here* AND DUUUUCK AND I THINK THAT'S IT BUT IF IT'S NOT THEN HAIIII!!!!*supermegatacklehugosfdoom*

Star Inkbright said...

owoll lukb? *shakes head at code writing/translating skills*

*tries to work out what I was meaning to say*

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

I have a pet chameleon and it's name is Pascal :3
My sister named it after the Chameleon in Tangled...

Maralie Lily Charm said...

Leanbh tú solas suas mo domhain mar aon duine eile
Faigheann an bealach go bhfuil tú smeach do chuid gruaige overwhelmed dom
Ach nuair a aoibh gháire tú ar an talamh nach bhfuil sé deacair a insint
Ní gá duit a fhios, oh oh
Níl a fhios agat go bhfuil tú álainn,
Oh oh
Sin an méid a dhéanann tú go hálainn

Star Inkbright said...

HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! :) *hugs Jubi*

You're so Jubi-like. :) You're awesome.

@Mara: Well . . . it looks beautiful, on the page. :)

All flowy, like.

Idk, I've never heard it aloud. XD

And - yeah, plus Google Translate is hardly accurate, but it was pretty obvious what you were saying. :)

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Maralie Lily Charm said...

TANGLED I LOVE THAT MOVIE

my dad's name is pascal lmao

oh I'm meant to speak in Irish all day today that's why I wrote Towers in Irish up there ^^^

Apparently it's Irish week in my school idk

Noelle said...

I don't speak Gaelic

Star Inkbright said...

@Mara: *gets it from the 'overwhelmed' in the middle and the 'oh oh's*

What Makes You Beautiful? :)

@Jubi: Awesome. :)

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Star Inkbright said...

@Mara: What. :P Okay.

@Adra: Neither do I. XD

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Star Inkbright said...

@Mara: REALLY?? That's cool. :)

. . . About the Pascal thing.

Only just saw it.

My dad's name is Dafydd . . . Pronouced Davviff.

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Maralie Lily Charm said...

Adra - It's not Gaelic
It's Irish :P
Gaelic is like the football
Gaelic football is pointless omfg

Star - I guess it kind of does XD
It's awkward to speak it. You need to get the fadas right (these - á é í ó ú) and ugh

I didn't know what overwhelmed was in Irish :P
But yep.
In Irish, saying I'm thirsty or something is like saying "the thirst is on me" :P "tá taoirse orm"
IRISH IS STRANGE DON'T EVER TAKE IT UP IT'S COMPLICATED
*sings Avril Lavigne*

Maralie Lily Charm said...

My dad's name is pronounced "Pass-cal"
Lots of people say "Phas-cal" um no :P

Dafydd is a cool name :)

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