Sunday, July 02, 2006

Slaughter

It's begun. I killed a slew of scouts the other day, and today Heth was impaled by an arrow shot by Eyend'sal, Endrea's and Elyste's guard. Next chapter, Eyend'sal dies, at Elyste's hand. I doubt Elyste will see that, but that's to inform him anyhow. He does get to kill a named character (though, I won't grant his wish of killing Endrea; I like Zefran too much to do that to him). In the following chapter, my favorite character croaks (being my favorite is the bane of any character's existence, whether I'm writing the story or not). In the next one, at least three other named characters keel over (more of them might die). So really, I'm not that gruesome. I only have five scheduled deaths that anyone really cares about, and one of them should have some people rejoicing. So there.

11 comments:

miss terri said...

it makes me sad that she dies though.

Mavis Fausker said...

Well, her dying is just the best thing that can happen, for all involved. I guess Brandon et al will still hate Maric, but since when does everyone have to like your main character.

wfTitus said...

Ahh... What type of book is this!! It sounds like the The Shining!!! Death after death after death!!!! When will the pain end!!!!!

Mavis Fausker said...

It will end at the End. And no, it isn't at all like The Shining. Actually, I wouldn't know, as I haven't read that. There's a war. People die in war. It's what happens.

wfTitus said...

You's got my undivided attention!

Mavis Fausker said...

Undivided, eh? Pity, because going through the entire plot could be difficult, and the import of the people that die is lost when one doesn't know what is going on. So you might have to wait a while before anything really makes any sense.

But I finished another chapter! Only "Sacrifice" and "Broken" are left to complete. Huzzah!

wfTitus said...

Well, now I want to read this book of yours. It sounds very exiting

Mavis Fausker said...

Danke. That's encouraging.

miss terri said...

it's true!
i always feel so silly when the password things are longer than my actual message...

wfTitus said...

Um, OK! Q, why do you have word verification?

Mavis Fausker said...

Because a whiile ago our little hive (Terri, and I, plus the people sharing the other blogs on our profiles) had a spam attack. Hence, we have word verification, which keeps spammers away.