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Threadmarks: Arc Two - Chapter 31: Dreams of a Sunlit future
Chapter 31: Dreams of a Sunlit future
I reached into the leather bag and pulled out a clawfull of ember grain. The individual seeds fell over each other in my claw as I held it there for a moment before offering my claw out, flat, before me.
The pidgrat eyed my claw curiously, looked up at...
Threadmarks: Arc Two - Chapter 30.5 Interlude: Moonlit Discussion
Arc Two - Chapter 30.5 Interlude: Moonlit Discussion
Arc Two - Chapter 30.5 Interlude: Moonlit Discussion
Eliza waited until her daughter's breaths slowed to a contented, steady beat of deep sleep. She gently stood up on the pads of her feet, careful as to not make noise and avoid the creaky...
I won't lie, while I have given some thought and stuff into integrating it all and doing some stuff up to the next arc with them, part of the deal with the shelled mollusks described is me being a paleobiology nerd. Look up ammonites. They're cool. I wish they were in the modern world's oceans.
Chapter 30: Now What?
The tide lapped gently at the shore as the sun set, casting the sands and grit of the beach in golden red hues. It wasn't hot and the water was way too cold for swimming, but the air felt comfortable enough to take my boots off. I sat on the large gray stone, my boots...
Chapter 29: The Grand Tour
Chapter 29: The Grand Tour
The first indication we were nearing Stonetown was the smell.
It wasn't what I had expected. I'd had worries about the bad smells of civilization. My first life read enough to know low tech places had trouble with their plumbing. Or didn't...
Chapter 28: Sasha's Forest
I nibbled my lip a bit as I looked upon my work. Paper would have been so much easier to work with, if less durable, but, well, I'd found out paper was not nearly so plentiful here. There was some, but our host had little to spare, nonetheless any for a random...
Spoilers ahead for those who aren't caught up:
While there is something to be said about clarity in more firmly establishing certain things in the earlier chapters, a lot of it comes down to style. I didn't want to overburden the early chapters with exposition of everything Gwen had encountered...
Threadmarks: Arc Two - Chapter 27: Stonetown is a Stupid Name
Chapter 27: Stonetown is a Stupid Name
I stared at Mom.
She stared back.
I looked down at the table picked clean of any and all food. It had been truly tasty food, with a lingering aroma even now, but I was, for the first time in a long time, stuffed. However, even that didn't detract from...
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Thanks for the typo suggestions. I swear i'm so scatterbrained. Catching this stuff throws me for a loop. I think I'm good at editing in terms of improving general narrative or awkward issues, but even in school catching grammatical/sentence structure stuff felt like a brick to...
Threadmarks: Arc Two - Chapter 26: Civilization = Bouillabaisse
Chapter 26: Civilization = Bouillabaisse
It was the smell that woke me.
Sleep remained incredibly appealing. Sleep was nice, sleep was warm, and sleep was kind. I could burrow into the comforting softness and forget the world exist, that I ached, that so much was worrying and scary in the...
Threadmarks: Arc Two - Chapter 25.5 Interlude: Dark Thoughts in the Fog
Chapter 25.5 Interlude: Dark Thoughts in the Fog
Warning: Some thoughts about suicide in this chapter.
Eliza had been in a few dark places in her life. These weren't places like not having money to make rent, or struggles with a job, relationship, troubles in the classroom whether it be kid...
Thanks for the comment.
A little bit of that awkwardness in the sense of self loss might be attributed to me taking the story more comedically early on, but by about chapter three I was treating the story seriously and had a lot of the world building setup. There's been a lot of views on what...
Thanks for the comments! And yeah, I need to go back and issue a correction and update soon because I did overhaul the conversation a bit before release (needed, original wasn't quite right), but I think that overhaul led to the awkward bits you're seeing in this.
And yeah, Hiss is the black...
Chapter 25: Idir
The water along the shore parted, rock and dead coral pushed up to form a low shoal just barely covered by water. The mists swelled, condensed, and left like a storm in miniature.
I opened my mouth, closed it, opened, and closed it again.
I'd had something of a thought about...
Out of curiosity, what did you think I was going to do?
(I'm not arguing on the evil part. I'm well aware most of my characters would probably commit bodily harm to me if they could.)
Chapter 24: The Far Shore
The stars are pretty.
It was an odd thought to have that night, but one I found undeniably true. I'm not sure when I'd first seen them, to be frank. Somewhere in the depths of infancy, I imagine Mom had probably brought me outside for fresh air. I assume this because...