serpent in a cage
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I have not had a very successful last few days. Some things in my life have been a little screwy, and the stress inherent in those things have prevented me from dedicating myself to my craft in the way I had intended. But that’s okay. Life happens, and then you just pick your ambitions back…
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“‘It’s hard to scrape a respectable living out of the burned cinders of a fallen empire,’ said Knolan quietly, before he lifted his chin to cling to whatever dignity remained after a statement like that.” Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my last post of A Round of Words in 80 Days for Round 3! Did…
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“‘I didn’t run’ Knolan said, his voice firm with insistence, but his eyes were searching her face for forgiveness. ‘Serene asked me to take Locke and make him safe. To escape so that he could survive. So that’s what I did. It was the last thing Serene ever asked of me, and, for eighteen years,…
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Since it’s the last few days of A Round of Words in 80 Days, most of my writing focus is going to be staunchly on getting to the big POV switch in Serpent in a Cage, but, of course, since I’m trying to focus on something, my mind is wandering a little toward other things…
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“Those wide blue eyes started dancing over Jaxson, over Gilferen, over Locke’s still figure on the ground, and Gilferen pulled himself up, stiffening under the flitting gaze. The questions she was asking…It was so far-fetched that he couldn’t believe it. Survived what? She couldn’t possibly mean the massacre. But she did. Knolan’s eyes fell, the…
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“‘I know,’ Locke admitted as a pit knotted in his stomach. “And I hate to admit it, but maybe that’s the one thing Jaxson’s been doing right that we haven’t been doing at all. Taking a risk, a gamble.’” This weekend has been sort of clogged with a lot of work; it’s not quite over…
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“He was wasting time, thought. It wasn’t as if Gilferen could storm off through the solid wall, so Locke wondered why he was trying to justify his actions in the first place. He was the leader, after all; Gilferen was easily his right hand man, but still one of his men all the same. Deep…
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