This month will mark the one-year anniversary of my blog! I know that I have been less than faithful, especially during the school year, but I hope that I will be able to post more this summer.
And now that it is June, I feel that I should put some writing goals up here. I want to finish Alicia this month. That is a big order, because the ending is still hazy to me. I know what I want to happen to everyone in the story except for my main character! Very annoying!
By the way, I shall post some more snippets, this time from part 2, which is coming along nicely.
Sir
Ashenisk held his swords crossed before him.
He dashed among the rubble of the collapsed house as the Dragon turned
and spewed flames at him. Sir Ashenisk
ducked, and the flames flared uselessly out over the river. As the Dragon gulped, preparing itself for
another attack, Sir Ashenisk made his move.
He darted towards the beast and stabbed at its throat. The Dragon reared on its hind legs to its
full height and grabbed for the knight with its long, sharp foreclaws. Sir Ashenisk ducked again and swiped his
swords over his head, slicing off the Dragon’s horny talons.
The Dragon plunged itself down,
trying to crush Sir Ashenisk, but the knight quickly scrambled out from beneath
the falling body and began clambering up the sides of the Dragon. The monster reared, trying to shake Sir
Ashenisk off its back, but Sir Ashenisk clung doggedly on, pulling himself
slowly up towards the Dragon’s head. The
Dragon knew full well what the knight was attempting, and its repulses became
more desperate. It tossed its head
wildly and roared its annoyance to the skies.
Sir Ashenisk only tightened his clutch on the Dragon. Finally he was able to reach around the neck
of the Dragon and shove his sword into the beast’s neck.
With a strangled attempt at a
bellow, the Dragon reared its head, and the exhausted Sir Ashenisk tumbled down
its back. The Dragon slumped down,
cracking a few more logs from the house.
Sir Ashenisk rolled over and lay on the ground gasping for breath.
~ Alicia
“Alicia,
I have him!” I heard Calla shout from not far away. I turned the corner of one of the houses and
saw her, illuminated in the flames, standing over a kneeling figure.
“Alfieri!” I called, running over to
them. Calla caught me before I reached
them, and I saw that Alfieri held a motionless body in his arms, burnt beyond
recognition. Somehow I knew that it was
Seria. “We need to get him out of here,”
I told Calla. The building next to us
was about to collapse and smother us in flames.
I ran over to Alfieri and shook his
shoulders. “Come, son of Fer. Leave her.”
He looked up at me with a face as
sooty as his father’s. “Let me die,” he
rasped.
“Never,” I snapped. “Grab one of his arms, Calla, and we can pull
him out.”
Calla obediently took hold of one of
Alfieri’s arms and we hauled him to his feet and pulled him towards the
river. The building crashed moments
afterward, sending a shower of sparks into the air.
Alfieri moaned. I slapped his face. “Come to yourself, man,” I said. “We have to get to the river.”
He stared at me, surprised. “Princess?” he said.
“Call me Alicia,” I replied
firmly. “You should be at the
river. Come with us.”
~ Alicia
“The
secret,” said Mistress Caffivi, “to making a soup is to add a lot of
water. We always have plenty of water,
you know, but sometimes meat is scarce, or, right now, vegetables are
scarce. And what I have here, my dear,
is a venison bone. We are not supposed
to hunt in the woods, but what with the higher taxes, we have to cut corners
here and there. We charge the same price
for a bowl of soup with more water because it costs us the same to make it with
more water as it was to make it before that woman . . . never mind.” Mistress Caffivi grew very red in the face. “But, we have very few vegetables, so dried
beans go very nicely and make the soup look fuller. In the autumn, of course, we will have plenty
of fresh vegetables and less meat, but the soup will probably be more. We have a hard time of it, Roglia, yes we
do. However, I am thankful to say that
we still keep a decent house.”
~ Alicia
There they are! I do like snippets. Please enjoy!
Thanks for reading and God bless,
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