Swift as her snakes, Stheno pounced.
Kirito trembled in her arms. Resistance to poison wasn’t immunity. He knew what her cobras could do. Continue reading
Swift as her snakes, Stheno pounced.
Kirito trembled in her arms. Resistance to poison wasn’t immunity. He knew what her cobras could do. Continue reading
“I left the clearers. I couldn’t look at them…. The Black Cats didn’t know what I’d done. They just needed another swordsman.”
“Another – they didn’t know you were a sorcerer?” Stheno demanded, aghast. “Why? How could you even hide it?” Continue reading
“Aunt Stheno.” A bare whisper. “It’s a – it feels like-”
“Shh.” Stheno crouched to block the youth from Yui’s sight. Continue reading
And sometimes the bunnies get ambitious.
“It’s just that you act like-” smell like “-you expected something to happen. And it didn’t, and you’re… disappointed.” Which was scary. Sachi fought because her guild fought, but if they ever decided to stay in town, she’d never go looking for monsters on her own! Continue reading
Sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know. Which is one reason having a beta reader – or three, or as many as you can lasso and bribe with chocolate – is critical. More eyes = more chances for someone to say, “Wait, that doesn’t seem right….”
Sometimes what you don’t know is that you’re actually missing a whole scene the reader really, really needs to place what the heck is going on, who are those guys, Continue reading
Sachi let herself breathe again, and took another cautious glance around the edge of the woodland pond. Dragonflies, cicadas; a violet-spotted frog hopping off a Sawtoothed Lily pad into dark water. Otherwise their little swampy clearing was as quiet as the black-clad swordsman perched on a cypress branch somewhere over her head. Continue reading
“Do you know how the NervGear works? Why we started the game without pain, but now, when we get hit, we feel it?”
Klein rolled his eyes. “Because Kayaba’s an asshole.” Continue reading
…And this problem area is being particularly sticky. Probably because I have an image in my head of the start of the scene, but not exactly how the scene should end. Continue reading
“Somebody posted a screenshot of what they said was the dev team’s tease for the 25th floor boss fight. Darkfire – the caption looked like it was on some kind of player spell or effect a lot like what you had. Only bigger.” Continue reading