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@ellette-giselle I don’t think you’re playing with demonic powers.

Putting an actual detailed ritual by the Imperial priests could be, for example, but simply the mention that a pagan temple has an evil presence hovering over it is, if anything, as realistic as you can make it.

The music track? Oh, it’s funny cause it is a synth-heavy…[Read more]

@keilah-h

Glad that makes sense. Some people have thought I was a little crazy for adding that and shouldn’t be playing around with adding demonic powers to my books. But we LIVE IN A WORLD with demonic powers people. *sigh* Glad this makes sense to someone.

From the way Linus asked the question I’m wondering what his response will be.…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle what you said about the temple feeling evil to Joseph makes sense to me. I, personally, have never been to any form of pagan temple (not even the ruins of one, that I can remember anyway) , but honestly the very fact that I would be standing in what was once used for or currently used for the worship of a false god (especially if…[Read more]

@freed_and_redeemed

Oooooo!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT!!!!! Ahhhhhh!!!! I’m so excited!!!!!!

@theducktator @ellette-giselle @rae @keilah-h @koshka @elishavet-pidyon @anyone-else

Riker Aesthetic for the 3rd book👀

and Bucky aesthetic (for fun)

@ellette-giselle @theducktator @rae @keilah-h Thanks y’all! 😁

@keilah

like in Freedom’s Fire you see him as mostly heartless and cruel, but in all the other books he is more humanized–he has a brother, he has a family, he has reasons for why he did what he did. Not that they were good reasons, mind you, but it means that it upsets you that…

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@linus-smallprint

(Though I guess Darrien might be panicked.)

Yeah, he’s panicked. He has no idea who Julian is, so the only reason that seems reasonable for a soldier to be here is to arrest those who were hiding him.

Again, another lie that feels wrong to me, and not just because I believe it is wrong for Christians to lie. I think it is…

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@linus-smallprint

(By the way, I should let you know that I’m not bothering to read the feedback others are giving you, so if anything has come up that you want more thought on, please let me know.)

Will do. It’s mostly the newest section from this morning that I’m anxious about, because the dynamics are delicate. as you will see. And I’m i…[Read more]

@linus-smallprint

Okay, that’s a lot of exclamation marks. You know five exclamation marks is a sure sign of madness, right? But you couldn’t settle for five, you went for six. (But who am I kidding, we’re all authors. Madness is sure to come with that.)

How dare you question my wise and perfect choice of exclamation marks! I have perfect contr…[Read more]

@linus-smallprint

 

Wooph! Got a lot to catch up on! Let’s see how far I get before I have class…

Yeah. Sorry about that. I kinda went on an editing streak and hybridlore was encouraging it. lol.

In the part where he is watching Arron in the fountain, he puts an end to it, and I was saying he was harsh based of of that. But I forgot tha…

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@hybridlore   @linus-smallprint    @koshka   @keilah-h

NEXT SECTION!!

Joseph sat at the table staring at nothing.

In the corner, Sabina was holding a sobbing Eric, and Asher was sitting beside Noah, his face pressed against him. Alicia was at the other end of the table, her hands over her face.

Darrien had a hand on Joseph’s shoulder…

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@rae you–

you actually liked it??

wow.

thank you!

three months of my life weren’t wasted writing this!

My only mental note is it was pretty obvious that Spy was Huntresses and Scouts father from the point that Huntress entered his room and saw his stuff.

This is probably a relic of earlier drafts, in which Huntress figured it out while she…[Read more]

@hybridlore

I just saw this and thought of you.

@loopylin

Oh no! that is awful! I will be praying!

@hybridlore

Okay. Now your good to reply.

@hybridlore

How could you kill your FAVORITE off, Ellette??? 😢

Aaron was my very favorite character I’ve ever written.

It’s dangerous to be my favorite.

Oh, it’s been picked back up. Just slightly bent now. 😁

good. lol. (No one saw that tantrum you threw. all’s good, all’s good. lolololololol)

Cool! So… how old is Joseph in the lat…

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@hybridlore

Don’t reply to the above yet.

I’m answering you again.

@hybridlore

lol. That’s great.

So because Julian and Joseph showed empathy for Adrian in that scene… will the government think they are Christians too?

Julian’s empathy is understandable. He’s trying to stop them from killing his little brother. He would have done that no matter the crime. He reacted badly enough to what Adrian said, that h…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle

Augh, I keep missing you!! 😅

Cool! So… how old is Joseph in the later books, if right now he’s “Young Joseph”?