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A Fairy Out of Her Tale - Dear Diary - 8. Scene 08

In which Nessa has her destiny sealed by a toilet flushing.

4th January, 1995

Dear Cursed Diary,

I still can't see your pages all that well, and black ink is the worst possible thing to use when the sun is struggling to get up the sky, but I lost my pink pen at the disaster that was my attempt at crossing the fairy house. I made it to the other side, but I lost much more than pretty pens.

I should've known that running was a bad idea - that going through the house was never going to work. I should've just gotten a bit more rest and faced the hills. It's not like I'm in a hurry to get anywhere.

Actually, now I am. I need to get as far from that house as I possibly can. I'm trying to run as I write. Multi-tasking like this can't be safe, but my heart is racing too much for me not to spill it all out.

Here's hoping I don't trip over a root while writing on a page I can't see! (And that I can understand it afterwards)

I climbed over their fence no problem, landed on their garden without making a sound or squashing their tomatoes, and crawled underneath their living room windows. The whole family seemed to be there. They were singing and shouting and laughing and it was like 3 in the morning and I would never have gotten away with making that much noise at home. Hopefully this means they don't have neighbours nearby that I would also stumble on.

I could hear them being loud until I was half-way through the path to one of the bedrooms. I was still crawling because they had their lights on in every room. Mum once told me that fairies are the only people who build their houses as individual rooms scattered around a plot of land surrounded by trees and flowers and gardens. Apparently other races just have everything in a single building? And don't bother with plants of any sort? How can they stand it? That means they never get to be outside!

But it would've been much easier for me to go past a house that was just a single building. Maybe they wouldn't have noticed me if all I had to do was crawl under their one window.

I was crawling my way past the bathroom when I heard the toilet flush. I panicked because as soon as they opened the door, I would be on the spotlight. So I got up and ran. And tripped on a root and landed on their rose bush and got scratched by all the thorns and there was no way I wouldn't scream because it hurt so much.

I don't think I ever said so many swearwords at once!

I can't write anymore. The trees are closing in on me and I need my hands to open my way.

We'll talk again once the trees leave me alone.

If they ever do.

Thanks for reading!
Nessa is being chased by the nature she once swore to protect…
We’ll know more about how this chase started, and who set them after Nessa, in the next scene (or whenever Nessa stops running).
For now, though, I can say that one of the fairy’s ability is to communicate directly to nature. Basically, they can talk to trees, and the tress (being sentient beings of some sort – though not like us) answer in their own way. In this case, someone went “attack!” and the trees said “yes, boss” and attacked.
I’m sure Nessa can phrase that better, though. She is (was?) a fairy and knows what she’s talking about better than me, after all!
We’ll see how Nessa managed to evade the forest on Friday. Unless you don’t wait another two days, in which case you might want to check the link to my Patreon on my profile (and read all the way to Scene 11!)
Copyright © 2018 James Hiwatari; All Rights Reserved.
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D.K. Daniels

Hey James good chapter, although I was little confused as to why she needed to go near the fairy house at all, distinctively in it. Was there a big wall or something running through the entire forest, acting as a divider. I must say I'm jealous of her agility show, I wish I could run and write at the same time. 

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James Hiwatari
On 1/26/2018 at 9:29 PM, D.K. Daniels said:

Hey James good chapter, although I was little confused as to why she needed to go near the fairy house at all, distinctively in it. Was there a big wall or something running through the entire forest, acting as a divider. I must say I'm jealous of her agility show, I wish I could run and write at the same time. 

The house was the only way to keep going ahead that didn't involve climbing mountains. Unless she wanted to make a complete 180º turn to get out of the forest the opposite way. Of course, now that we know how bad an idea it was, it's obvious that climbing a hill would've been much easier than what eventually happened, but Nessa was tired of walking, probably sleep deprived, and definitely not on the right mind to make important calls like this one. 

 

All I can say about Nessa's agility is that our body's capacity may surprise us when we least expect it... :)

 

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D.K. Daniels
On 30/1/2018 at 4:59 PM, James Hiwatari said:

The house was the only way to keep going ahead that didn't involve climbing mountains. Unless she wanted to make a complete 180º turn to get out of the forest the opposite way. Of course, now that we know how bad an idea it was, it's obvious that climbing a hill would've been much easier than what eventually happened, but Nessa was tired of walking, probably sleep deprived, and definitely not on the right mind to make important calls like this one. 

 

All I can say about Nessa's agility is that our body's capacity may surprise us when we least expect it... :)

 

Ah cool, I see. It just felt like you missed an opportunity to put her in danger, it would have been cool to give the readers a little tingle of what could happen, then she makes it through to the other side. :) Yes true if you are sleep deprived and hungry among other things, I guess devising a plan is the last of your problems.

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James Hiwatari
On 2/4/2018 at 9:31 PM, D.K. Daniels said:

Ah cool, I see. It just felt like you missed an opportunity to put her in danger, it would have been cool to give the readers a little tingle of what could happen, then she makes it through to the other side. :) Yes true if you are sleep deprived and hungry among other things, I guess devising a plan is the last of your problems.

Well, Nessa did end up getting in quite a lot of danger in the end (and continues to do so as of scene 20 even... writers love their main characters, don't they?), so hopefully you weren't disappointed in that. ;)

 

 

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D.K. Daniels
2 minutes ago, James Hiwatari said:

Well, Nessa did end up getting in quite a lot of danger in the end (and continues to do so as of scene 20 even... writers love their main characters, don't they?), so hopefully you weren't disappointed in that. ;)

 

 

True you grow an attachment to your characters. Though I can't help but throw everything bad in their direction. I guess the more obstacles you have in your way the more intriguing it gets. Obstacles in a way make your reader feel the torment your character is going through, if you end a sad chapter trying yourself then you've known you done something right lol.

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41 minutes ago, D.K. Daniels said:

True you grow an attachment to your characters. Though I can't help but throw everything bad in their direction. I guess the more obstacles you have in your way the more intriguing it gets. Obstacles in a way make your reader feel the torment your character is going through, if you end a sad chapter trying yourself then you've known you done something right lol.

If you don't have obstacles of some sort, chances are the story gets boring quickly...

 

Attachment to characters is usually a good thing. I actually get to know mine by role-playing random scenes/interactions in my head that just happen to fit whatever I'm doing at the moment, so I tend to treat them more like friends/family than random people whose actions I put on the page. It works well for the most part, until someone has to die.

I think I killed a major character in a story only once, ages ago. I know I'll kill again (cue creepy villain background music), but actually this particular character will have his death over-ruled in the new version I'm making for his story (because his death turned out to be surrounded by unfortunate implications that I now know better than to perpetuate, so he gets to live... for now).

(end of villain background music)

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