Hey, it's Tuesday! I can't believe I even remembered about teasing. I've been majorly busy with school lately, and I even took a week-long break from the Young Writers Society to deal with it all. I haven't been writing at all this week either because of the massive school stuff.
But that's okay, because I'm starting this blog off with the start of Eventide, and working my way through the teasers I posted on YWS up to where I'm working on now.
Background info time:
Natura has just woken up from a hauntingly realistic nightmare, and is in her bed in her room in her family's cottage in her village in Icarthia. Exciting, I know.
This isn't the best bit of Eventide, and it is part of a big section that needs some massive editing. But I really like the interaction between Natura and her friend Christiana.
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Natura opened her eyes slowly, finding herself staring at the straight wooden boards that spanned the ceiling of her bedroom, and not floating in perpetual darkness as she had feared. She blinked a few times, wondering if she was, in fact, further away from the ceiling that usual.
The answer came with a slobbery lick-to-the-face by Alaster from where he stood on the floor next to her. Natura pushed him away and sat up. Once she had a grasp on her surroundings, the dream came rushing back to her. It was all she could do to not shout as pain shot through her head again. Alaster whimpered and nuzzled her shoulder, and she semi-consciously pet him while she stared into space.
The dream had been so real this time. The man in the shadows, as she had begun to refer to him as, had spoken to her. He had spoken to her with the most bone-chilling voice she had ever heard, and it had been comforting yet disturbing at the same time.
“You were dreaming,” a familiar voice stated, breaking Natura from her daze.
She peered over the edge of her bed to find a young woman lying on it, staring at the ceiling, light from the window reflecting off her familiar color-streaked hair . “What?”
“You were dreaming, and you screamed,” she said. “Loud.”
“And somehow ended up on the floor,” Natura added.
A devilish smile crept over her mouth, and a strand of pink hair fell into her face, “Again, you were screaming.”
Natura raised an eyebrow. “How exactly does that result in me being on the floor, Christiana?”
“Well I had to wake you up somehow."
Christiana laughed and tossed the pillow back at Natura. She sat up on the bed and stretched her arms to the ceiling, and ran her hands through her multi-colored hair. Yellow, blue, red, pink, and purple strands curled around her fingers as she moved her hands through the brown roots of her hair.
“So why are you in my room this early anyways?” Natura asked her.
Christiana shrugged. “I forget everything before I found you screaming.”
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Hope that was enjoyable to read. Any comments on what was good? Any comments on what should be improved?
-Lauren-
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