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Well. I've been up and down all day, alternating between feeling pretty good/hopeful and feeling like death on a cracker. The latest issue of HB is finally finished, including the four page preview of the next issue. And I've been down to the library for more books, paid a bill, and did some grocery shopping. That means that the rest of today is mine to do with as I please, and what it pleases me to do is... write!
But before I get back to Where Darkness Falls, my NaNo novel, I have a short story biting me something fierce: a piece set in the DegSep universe and titled "The Tale of Smith and the Ghast Stag". It's basically a solo adventure that Smith had after the Matrix Wars during a couple of days when Neo was in the Real and Smith was in the Matrix, and frankly, Smith was bored... until he overheard Lucien Noir telling a pregnant Ninel the tale of the Ghast Stag, a creature which supposedly lives in the shadow realm that connects the Sidhe barrows -- a creature that cannot be defeated or destroyed, that kills anything or anyone who challenges it, and that visits Exiles in their nightmares with terror so overwhelming that some have been driven mad. Its power lies in its horns, and Smith decides to go hunting for it so that he can present the horns to Neo as a gift. This little quest turns out to be one of only three times that Smith was ever defeated (depending on your definition of defeat) and the tale is being told by a Priest of Thyme to a group of young Temple acolytes many years after both Neo and Smith have died.
(By the way, does anyone remember the name that I/we gave to the shadow lands, where strange creatures dwell?)
If anyone's interested, let me know and I'll post it.
But before I get back to Where Darkness Falls, my NaNo novel, I have a short story biting me something fierce: a piece set in the DegSep universe and titled "The Tale of Smith and the Ghast Stag". It's basically a solo adventure that Smith had after the Matrix Wars during a couple of days when Neo was in the Real and Smith was in the Matrix, and frankly, Smith was bored... until he overheard Lucien Noir telling a pregnant Ninel the tale of the Ghast Stag, a creature which supposedly lives in the shadow realm that connects the Sidhe barrows -- a creature that cannot be defeated or destroyed, that kills anything or anyone who challenges it, and that visits Exiles in their nightmares with terror so overwhelming that some have been driven mad. Its power lies in its horns, and Smith decides to go hunting for it so that he can present the horns to Neo as a gift. This little quest turns out to be one of only three times that Smith was ever defeated (depending on your definition of defeat) and the tale is being told by a Priest of Thyme to a group of young Temple acolytes many years after both Neo and Smith have died.
(By the way, does anyone remember the name that I/we gave to the shadow lands, where strange creatures dwell?)
If anyone's interested, let me know and I'll post it.
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