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Tiercel's Peregrinations
Topic Started: Jan 10 2017, 09:00 PM (4,167 Views)
Andra Hawksdaughter
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SO good!! And see, this is the kind of story I adore, and cannot write to save my life.
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Hey, thanks y'all!

Um.... Sis.... what do you mean? I mean.... this is all just fluff from dreamstuff - it's not like it's planned or anything. Your stories are far more cohesive and "real" - and your action scenes are just super....
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Andra Hawksdaughter
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Thanks Sis, you're a peach!!

I like what I write, but I'm terrible at the suspenseful mystery, with all it's plot twists and turns. That's what this is, no matter what you call it. *grin* It's been almost constant edge of the seat suspense, and wonderful! Doesn't matter how it came to you. *hug* I would have written myself into a corner by now. (So hush and let me love your talent!)
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Um. Okay. Thank you!
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And.... I admit.... I LOVE Nora Roberts.

I - um - might be a quick learner.
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Well, at least the slimeball is out of the picture. Loving the suspense, Sere!
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Thanks Kane!
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53 - Now to sit on ma until Bal pops

So. Here’s the thing: we might think Bal was “implanted” somehow in ma’s mind (well, emotions more like, considering....) but - how to lure him out before he does the kind of damage that was done to Vintan? In other words - first, how to prove he’s “in” there; second - how to winkle him out.

I sidled up to da after morning meal. “How’s ma?” I hated to do it baldly - but if anyone could deal, it was my father.

“Eh. She’s - still making new bed-linens. Now.... we all know your ma hasn’t ever been much on the housewifely arts....” He sighed. “I admit - I’ve been happy that she’s always been a bit.... unworldly.... but this isn’t like her. And when I talk to her - well, it’s like talking to a blank slate.

“I - have to say you’re probably right. She’s - not ‘herself’. And that’s because she’s Bal-ridden.”

We were silent for some while. Eventually, da looked at me soberly. “You do know what Bal’s famous for, right?”

“Aye. Making vampires - pure blood ones - out of women.”

“Keep an eye out. And have Vartain keep both his on you. I - think - while Bal would be happy subverting your mother....”

I was shocked to see tears in his eyes. “....it’s likeliest you he wants.”

“I’m no virgin, da. Aye you might not want to hear it. But if it works better for you, just lay my deflowering to Var last night - and since we’re planning a wedding....”

He shook his head, and I noted the tears didn’t lessen. And his hands trembled. He was.... more disturbed than I’d ever seen him, my da.

I stepped close to him, and wrapped him in my arms. “I love you. You’re the rock I’m made from. We’ll get through this. And you’ll dance with ma at my wedding. And then with ma, and every other woman in the room!” I hoped with all my heart it would all be true.

Finally da wiped the wet off his face, saying “If you ever tell anyone....!” I shook my head. “Thing is - I think that business of virgin blood is - specious. I think.... Bal finds a woman who appeals on some level - and goes after her.”

Oh gods. That angle meant.... how many girls had gone missing in Skyrim over the centuries? Far too many I was sure. If Bal had them.... I shuddered.

“Well, but why me? I’m no raving beauty. I have family with power - yes, don’t pretend - and that’s so odd that he might front family over me.... I’m not much of anything....”

Var walked in. And suddenly.... “Oh. But he couldn’t have known.... could he?”

A daedric prince.... could know anything he wanted to. Even the future....
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This road they're on certainly twists, turns and sometimes goes back on itself! :D Loving it!
Edited by Brambleberry, Mar 13 2017, 09:33 PM.
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Serethil
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Thank you Bram!
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Andra Hawksdaughter
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Well there's another fine mess, and an 'oh shit' moment too! I can't even imagine how she's going to deal with this new turn of events!

Love it Sis!!
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Thanks Sis! Oh, let me tell you how much you don't want my dreams just now.... Serious.

Tonight is full moon.... Ugh.
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Areial
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Very twisty.. and not a boat I would want to be on!
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Yeah.... me either. Unfortunately.... Thanks, sis!
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Andra Hawksdaughter
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Don't even mention the full moon...people who work in hospitals ALWAYS know when the full moon is happening. LOL
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54 - We need to figure out a lure....

I explained what we’d just talked over to Var. The grim set of his lips by the time I finished let me know he’s just as worried as I am, or Da. I had a thought once I fell silent though.

“Here now.... if this isn’t just fluff (and I admit it could be of course), if I take myself off to - say - Solstheim, or the Imperial City.... That ought to pull Bal out after me?”

Both men were shaking their heads instantly. “No. No more you being bait.” Var and Da nodded to each other.

Exasperated, I snarled “You can’t keep me from going! I’m a woman grown!”

Da growled, “Act your age then! You can’t go off on your own. How would you deal with Bal when he came after you?”

“I’d find out when - if - it happened obviously. I’m pretty sure my mind’s a lot solider than ma’s is - and if I don’t give him an entry....”

I glared right back at both of them. “And there’s no way I can marry you as long as we even think this might be the situation!”

Var simply grabbed me. “No. There isn’t - because I can’t possibly give any prince an entry into me as the High King. But you’re still not....”

As a way of shutting him up, clipping him with a fist on the jaw was pretty effective. Da went pale.

“Tier! You just belted the HIGH KING. Where’s your brain, daughter?”

“Where’s HIS? I’m not married to him yet, may never be at this rate, and he’s ordering me around? I don’t take it from you, and I won’t from you either, Var!” I was well and truly outraged.

And my knuckles hurt. I refused to suck them.

We’re not going to discuss what happened next. We are NOT.
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Brambleberry
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Love IS a battlefield.
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Heh. Yeah. Something like that! Oh lordy.... I LOVE Pat.... and all those oldies but goodies.

But in this particular thing.... it's more like Shakespeare - with a soupçon of "don't you TOUCH me!".... from Indiana...,
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Very Nice... It takes a good man to know when to let a woman do her own thing.. and only do the "protective" thing from behind... sometimes though, men just gotta be men!
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Yeah, especially in a culture like that one - or at least as I perceive it in this instance! Thanks!
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