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VIII. Love "We're going to move out in about a week," Jassa explained. She and Sumna were sitting in a twin set of chairs across from Jordan and Brandon who were seated on a tiny couch inside Sumna and Jassa's Odwayon home. Brandon and Jordan sat close together, their joined hands hidden in the folds of the cushions. Occasionally one of them would make a little gesture, a subtle squeeze or the comforting stroke of a thumb over knuckles. "That will give us enough time to gather all we n
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~~~~~~ The young man stepped into the diner, shivering viciously and stomping the snow from his boots. He looked around and approached the long counter, forgoing the booths lining the walls, and slid onto a stool. Jack watched the newcomer from the corner of his eye. This diner was mostly a haven for truck drivers, salespeople and other transients, so seeing strangers was not a terribly uncommon experience. This guy, for some reason, caught his attention. He thought i
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Jack meets a lonely stranger and finds an interesting way to keep him warm.
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VII. Guilt Jordan stayed crouched on the ground for a long time, long enough for his legs to cramp and his feet to tingle, until Brandon fell asleep again. Then after that, he stayed a while longer, holding Brandon’s hand, watching his face. He wondered what memories plagued his mind, what nightmares played out underneath those eyes. He carefully released his hand and crossed the room. He glanced at the book on his cot, the one on Enabling and Creating that Sumna had given him. Like he
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VI. Rajar Jordan woke Brandon up early the next morning, before it was fully light out, to travel to the main village for breakfast. When Brandon sleepily protested, Jordan reminded him that he hadn’t shown up for dinner the previous night and needed food. Brandon only offered a little resistance. All other things aside, the people in Odwayon knew how to cook. Afterwards, Brandon didn’t want to go back to their sleepy pod, so they sat one on of the less busy walkways and watched the s
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V. Secrets Jordan woke up early the next day, slightly surprised to find Brandon’s side of the room empty. He stretched a little and tried to remember the lazy, cocky Brandon who whined about getting up before noon. It was a long stretch to connect that person to the angry, withdrawn creature Brandon was now. The door cracked open and Brandon slipped inside, sitting a bowl on the table in between the cots. Jordan pushed himself up on his elbows and peered into the bowl.
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IV. Nexus When Jordan woke up, he felt a sleepy type of disorientation that sometimes plagued him after a long, deep sleep. He took stock of the room he was in: it was a tiny, circular affair, with enough room for two cots and a small table in between. He stood up and leaned over the other cot to look out the window. In the early morning sun, the towering trees and the structures built around them seemed less mysterious, more real and no less fantastic. He got up and made his bed,
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III. North Jordan sat curled against the headboard--as far away from him as he could get, Brandon noticed--sipping water cautiously. He looked weak and tired and barely able to stay upright, but he wouldn’t let anyone near him. Jordan didn’t speak. He sat there, drank water when it was given to him, following Jassa’s careful instructions to sip. Sumna had gone downstairs to get him some food. His eyes tracked the room nervously, keeping watch on Jassa near the door and fr
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Thanks for reviewing Not The Sun. The sequel The In Between is up now and the third book is going up in the near future as well. I hope you enjoy them as well!
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II. Dreams for Plans Brandon woke up the next morning in desperate need of a bathroom. He couldn’t remember much of what had happened when he was wrapped in layers of pain and hallucinations, but he was pretty certain that personal hygiene hadn’t been a part of it. His head was still pounding, but the pain from earlier, the screaming, debilitating pain he had suffered through daily, was gone. Jordan was still lying beside him, and Brandon again tried to rouse him, to no avail. It
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Hurricane Lamps It was the summer of their thirteenth year, a ripe and hot summer, still sizzling with shared secrets and hidden hopes when Elijah mentioned the idea of a secret hideout. Their old hangouts, the sandlot and basketball court, had been taken over by local bullies and drug addicts, respectively. It was still several years before they would be able to drive to the mall or cinema--places where the teenagers hung out. Tony, who secretly wondered if they were getting a litt
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Two young boys share a summer that will change their lives
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Jabberwocky Brandon couldn't see. Could barely breathe. Could hardly think. He only knew two things: the pain and the needle. The pain never left. It took up residence in the front of his head, where Jordan's psychic connection would sometimes dock, blurring his vision and drying his mouth. It wasn't constant, it would come and go, ebb and flow, rise up so that sometimes he would scream instead of whimper, cry instead of sleep. The needle hel
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In the depths of Charion exist terrible betrayals, seductive monsters--and a capacity for love and healing that Brandon had no longer believed existed. Secrets are discovered and forgiveness is sought, all while trying to save a world on the brink of destruction. This is the third book in the Not The Sun series.
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17 ~Nightmares~ Jordan watched that evening as Brandon carefully measured out the herbs for Leia's sleep remedy. "Good," Jordan said when Brandon showed him the finished product. "Pretty easy, huh?" "Yeah," Brandon said softly, setting it aside. "But I don't like it." "My mixture will just make me sleep for a couple of days. It's the same thing Leia takes, only stronger. I won't be unconscious or anything," Jordan explained as he dumped triple the amount they mixed for Leia into a mug.
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16 ~Considerations~ Brandon slammed the door shut behind him and pulled the helmet off, throwing it against the wall. It hit the stone with a dull thunk before dropping to the ground. Not enough noise for Brandon's mood at the moment. He wanted to hear glass shattering, metal screaming, plaster crumbling. He wanted loud, powerful, violent sounds to match his mood. He felt like screaming, pounding the floor like a toddler having a tantrum. Instead, he just fell into a chair and dropped his head
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15 ~The Queen of Charion~ It took everything that Salvo had just to get Brandon on a horse, never mind riding solo. But Jordan told him that he had to enter the city on horseback or else draw suspicion, and since it was Jordan and Brandon didn't want to come across like a pussy, he reluctantly climbed atop the patient brown mare that was now his. Jordan rode with him a while, letting him get used to the feeling. Jordan had good control of their horse, and while they weren't riding at a breakne
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14 ~Reunions~ The night before he and Jordan were scheduled to "rendezvous", Brandon studied the map again. He had studied it every night with the kind of determination he had never applied to his schoolwork. Charion was their world now, and he wanted to know it like he did his own neighborhood. He had talked to Tananja everyday during his lunch break, hoping to find out more about the Silver Falls or some of the other sacred places without arousing suspicion, but that hadn't yielded very go
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13 ~Solitaire~ When Brandon saw that Salvo and Jordan would have to travel on horseback to get to the castle where Leia was being kept, he was a little bit glad he was staying behind, although his stomach still twisted with something that felt suspiciously like jealousy at the fact that Jordan would be seeing Leia before he would. Still, he couldn't help being a little relieved that he wouldn't have to ride a horse quite yet. He still accompanied them to the edge of town, where Salvo rent
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12 ~Salvo~ Jordan stared down at Dathilda's motionless body, before gently bending over and closing her eyes. The black centers were their normal size, but the surrounding whites were crimson, filled with blood from burst vessels. He picked up a bed sheet from where it was folded neatly next to her still body and gently snapped it open over her, let it float down to cover her. He made especially sure that her face and feet were covered, tucking the edges in around her body. He had come in
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11 ~Dathilda~ Anailde, who apparently felt that she wanted no more misfortune landing at her doorstep, waited a few days until Brandon was able to tolerate travel then loaded Jordan and Brandon into some kind of carriage and took them to another town. Brandon tried to sleep through the journey. Anailde had given him enough narcotics to knock out a small horse, but every bump and dip in the road pulled his back, keeping him awake but exhausted. Jordan sat silent next to him. After a while,
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10 ~The Chimney~ Jordan woke up to someone shaking him and a warm voice next to his ear. "Wake up, blue eyes, I have something for you." Jordan groaned in agitation, turning over in his warm cocoon of blankets. "I don't want it." A bark of laughter, feminine in nature, had Jordan opening his eyes. He sat up, blinking. "Right here," Brandon's voice, right next to him. "Listen. Anailde has some medicine that we have to put into your eyes. It's going to make you see better. All right?"
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09 ~Convalescing~ For Jordan, the transition between unconsciousness and awareness was a quick and confusing thing. He blinked, and upon seeing nothing, sat up too quick, a strong wave of dizziness and nausea assaulting him. "Whoa, easy there blue eyes," a voice said and warm arms came up around him, holding him gently. "I've got you." There was a shifting of weight and then something cool was pressed against Jordan's mouth. "Here, drink this. Just water." Jordan took a tentative
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08 ~Charion~ Brandon and Jordan might have left their world in the grip of a mellow fall sliding slowly into a cool winter, but in the field of too tall grass, it was the middle of Charion's summer. The sun beating down from the sky was about as hot as Jordan's body radiating against Brandon's side. He trudged forward, dragging Jordan with him. A few more staggering steps had them out of the tall blades into a clearing which had shorter, normal looking grass, crops of some kind growing
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07 ~The In Between~ Brandon opened his eyes. At first he saw nothing but darkness, which frightened him. Then the shades of gray began to fall from his vision and he could take in his surroundings. It was the in between. Just like he had seen in his dreams and Charion, except everything was clearer and well defined, pulsing with life and color. Hell, even the air tasted different. Brandon took a deep breath, and then let it out. He felt a weight on him, and looking down he saw that
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