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Quick Update

28 Monday Feb 2011

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Hey all!

Just a quick update (since I’m writing this on my phone) to let you know that I’m not sure when I’ll be able to post more of Midnight Run because I’m having computer difficulties. But I will keep posting everyday, even its a short post from my phone until I get my laptop working or (eventually, hopefully) get a Mac.

I’ve decided I hate PCs. They never for well for long. And I’m sick of paying for junk. So I’m making the leap to Apple, something I swore I would never do! :p

Hope y’all enjoyed the last installment of Midnight Run!
Until next time,
Kristi

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Midnight Run chapters 7-10

27 Sunday Feb 2011

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Hey everyone! I’m happy to announce that I seem to have overcome my writers block, at least for the time being, and I’ve added another four chapters to Midnight Run!! It only took me about a month, and for that I apologize. I just couldn’t figure out what to do, and Eravest didn’t want to behave herself 😛

If you want to read Chapters 1-3 or Chapters 4-6 you can click on the links!

So without further ado, I give you Midnight Run!

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Chapter 7

I just stared at him with my mouth hanging open, my whole life had been a life, my parents had been lying to me for 17 years, I wasn’t even human! How was that possible? I felt human, I looked human, how could I be anything but human? It was then that Kilava walked in, he turned to me and bowed very crisply, but without looking at me at all. He turned to my father and inclined his head, “Sir, we need to get moving, Eravest needs to be in the safety of the palace before nightfall.” He was talking about me as if I wasn’t even there! I stared at him in defiance and said, “What do you mean? I’m not going anywhere!” I jumped up ran past everyone to my room and slammed the door shut, locking it behind me. I flung myself on my bed and began to cry. I never cried, I hated crying, but I couldn’t stop. I felt as if my life was over, and in a way it was, the life I had always known was over. I could never be just Eravest again. I didn’t want to believe that I was Queen, but somewhere deep down inside I knew it was true. It felt right, like the last piece of a puzzle making the picture whole. When I could not cry any more tears, I stood up and looked around my room, at all the things I had acquired over the years. Then I looked at myself in the mirror, I looked awful! I picked up my brush and began to work through the knots in my hair. I left it down and tried to ignore the fact that my nose was red and my eyes were puffy. I walked into my closet and picked up one of my backpacks and began to stick my favorite stuff in it, I knew I would have to leave here, I didn’t want too. But some part of me knew that other guy in the woods would be back, and I did not want him hurting my family. The last thing I put into my bag was my stuffed panther, he had been with me since I was little, I couldn’t remember a time not having him, so he was of course going with me. I quickly changed into jeans and a t-shirt and tried to collect my thoughts. I opened the door, and ran right into Kilava…

Chapter 8

“What is with you?” I snarled at him, “Are you stalking me or something?”

“I am your warrior, your guardian; I have to stay with you to keep you safe.” His reply was solemn, almost sad, it threw me off.

“Well, I packed my things, I am allowed to bring stuff right?” I asked not really caring what his answer was, I wasn’t leaving my things behind

“Of course you are my Queen, although you will find that all of your needs will be well provided for.”

He still would not look at me, which bugged me or some reason, I was beginning to think he didn’t like me. And that this was going to be very hard.

“Well, I need to go talk to my parents…” the sentence just seemed to trail off and hand between us. I didn’t know if I should just leave or what, so I just turned and headed down the stairs. I could feel him following behind me, a few paces back.

I walked down the stairs and through the house slowly, I did not know if I would be allowed to come back, I had not asked because I was afraid the answer would be ‘No’. When I got back to my parents, I realized that most of the faieres had left. Only four remained, two woman and two men. They bowed at the waist to me when I entered the room; I didn’t think I’d ever get used to that.

I just stood there, I did not quite know what to do, and I didn’t really want to say Goodbye because that would imply I was not coming back. My Mom was the first person to move, she crossed the room and hugged me tight, I didn’t want her to ever let me go. But I knew that she would have to, and she did. As she was stepping away, I could have sworn I saw tears in her eyes, and my mother never cried.

“What happens now?” I found myself asking, even though I didn’t want to know the answer.

“My Queen, my name is Wind”, one of the two women said with a deep bow, “Kilava and the rest of us will escort you back to your palace to await your coordination. We need to leave soon before it gets dark. I see you have already packed your things, that is very good, but you need to say goodbye to your parents now…”

I just stared at her, she was strikingly beautiful, and I was beginning to think they all were. I also noticed that she was wearing a white sort of tunic, and other female was wearing a red tunic. The two males were wearing brown and blue. “Who are they?” I asked abruptly and probably rudely. I did not care anymore.

“We are your council”, this time the other female spoke, “My name is Fire, he is Earth and he is Water.” She said pointing to the men in the brown and blue tunics who bowed in turn. “Our job is to help you out in any way we can, to assist you, to help guard you when we are needed, and to teach you how to be Queen.”

“Air, Fire, Earth, Water? Aren’t those elements?”

“Yes, they are, for as long as time can remember the council has been made of four members chosen and re-named for each one of the four elements.” Answered Wind

So far, the boys had remained silent, but they watched me with the same soul-piercing gaze. I did not think I would ever get used to it. It made me want to flinch away. I didn’t want to ask my next question, but I knew I had too, I knew I would not be ready to leave until I knew.  But before I could open my mouth to speak, Kilava spoke from behind me.

“You will get to see them again, not as often as you would probably like, but you will still see them, I imagine they will be at your coronation, even though she is human it is tradition for the parents of the new queen to be there. And you can write them, and they you.”

This time, for the first time, I found I wasn’t angry that he had been reading my thoughts, because the question had just been too hard for me to ask. I found myself breathing a sigh of relief; I straighten up trying to draw myself together and went over to where my parents stood together. My Mom was crying, something I didn’t think I had ever seen before, and even my Dad seemed to be fighting back tears. I hurled myself into their arms and tried not to cry again myself.

“Don’t worry dear; we will see you again very soon! And we will write to you, and you can come and visit as often as you can!” I didn’t know who my father was trying to comfort more, me or my Mother who by now was sobbing uncontrollably.

“It’s time.” I heard Kilava say, he was still standing by the door waiting, trying not to intrude.

I gave each of them one last hug separately, and I turned to face my council and my guard, trying to put on my bravest face I said, “Let’s go home then”, and I headed for the door.  I didn’t look back because I knew if I did, I would never be able to leave.

 

 

Chapter 9

As soon as we got outside, I turned and looked at Kilava, “How are we going to get to wherever it is that we are going?” I asked, I honestly had not really thought about it before, but now that we were standing outside on my porch, I was curious. I couldn’t think of where this place would be, I imagined it was decently sized, so I had no idea where they had been hiding it all this time, and I have no idea how far away it was…

“We are going to run of course”, he said as if it was the most obvious answer in the world, “how else would we get there?”

“I don’t know! There was always car or plane, or even horse!” he had kind of hurt my feelings; it’s not as if I had even known the placed existed before today.  So it’s not as if I even knew where it was!

He look ashamed, “I’m sorry, that was very rude of me; we will run there, it’s not very far, and you’ll see how we’ve kept it hidden when you get there. It’s this way…,” he said as he headed towards my pond.

We took off at a decent paced run, not as fast as I normally ran, but not slow, and I was grateful for the pace, I was beginning to feel more than a little worn out.  I hadn’t slept any since the day before, unless you counted passing out, which I didn’t. When we got to my pond we slowed down, I stood in the clearing feeling the peace and calm that always came with it.

“Would you like to gather your other things?” Kilava asked

“Oh, yeah, thanks…” I trailed off, I hadn’t even thought about not being able to go back to my clearing every night. But I guessed now I had a country to run, a whole race of people who would depend on me. I truly had a whole world on my shoulders. Now I knew what that statue guy must have felt like.

I walked over to my hiding place to grab my things, I was happy to see that they were still there; the dark haired man had not found them. I quickly put everything in my bag, my journals, my books, and all my treasures, the hole looked sad and empty now. It was all I could do to hold back the tears; I did not want to cry anymore. I was tired of crying. Trying to put on a brave and happy face I turned around to face them, they had waited patiently for me to say my goodbyes to the one place I had always felt peace. For this, I was grateful.

“Ok, I’m ready. Where to from here? How far is it?” I asked

“Not far now, we keep going in the same direction, we will be there before dusk.” This time Wind answered

I shouldered my bag and followed them out of the clearing, there wasn’t exactly a clearing or a path, but it wasn’t hard to walk at all. It was almost as if the trees and such knew that we belonged there, so they didn’t fight us. After a little while, we reached a tiny clearing, way smaller than mine, and in the middle of it was an arch. There was nothing beside it, nothing at all around it. I was, once again, confused. Fire walked to stand in front of the center of the arch. She bowed her head, lifted her hands, and spoke a word I didn’t understand. And she walked through the archway, but didn’t come out the other side. I gasped and felt my jaw drop; it must have been a trick of the light or something. It had to be! Then Earth and Water walked through the archway as well. I looked over at Kilava, he was smiling at me, “Where did they go?!” I asked

“You will see, take my hand, don’t worry. It’s safe.” He held out his hand to me, and I took it almost without thinking about it. And we walked forward, into the arch, for a second everything seemed to blur around me, it was as if the world was moving around me, I closed my eyes and held onto his hand tightly, leaning into him as I did. I felt his arms wrap around me and he patted me on the back. “It’s ok Eravest, we are here now, open your eyes, look at your kingdom.” He murmured to me

Chapter 10

I opened my eyes, and I had to do a double take, I had never seen anything like it in my entire life. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I didn’t think such beauty had existed in the world. Then again, this was a completely new world, and it looked huge! There were buildings as tall as the tress around them, in fact, the buildings seemed to be a part of the trees, and everything seemed to fit together. Almost as if everything had grown out of the forest, I couldn’t decide if the buildings were made of stone or wood, they looked like a mixture of the two. Then I saw the people, so many people, of all ages, tiny children playing in the street, to adults, to older fairies, although even the older fairies didn’t look that old. I took a step forward onto the street, and that is when they all saw me. All at once, everyone bowed to the ground. I just stood there, I didn’t know what to do, I couldn’t remember, a lifetime of training just flew out of my head. I panicked, I griped Kilava’s hand, which I hadn’t realized I was still holding even tighter, and looked to him for guidance.

“Incline your head a little, and wave, don’t be afraid, these are your people, and they all love you.” He whispered to me

I slowly bowed my head, and with the hand that wasn’t holding his I waved, I tried to smile and look happy, but honestly, I felt like I was going to pass out again. I wondered if I could ever get used to this…to being ‘loved by everyone’. To have everyone know me, or to know of me. It was daunting to say the least.

Everyone started to cheer, and clap; the children danced and ran around in circles. I had never seen anything like this before. Not even the King himself received such a welcome at his own home. And they had known him his whole life. They knew him.

Kilava squeezed my hand and indicated that I should follow him, so I did, it was a good thing he was leading me because I couldn’t stop looking at the city, at all the amazingly rich colors, and the people, everything was so beautiful. After a little while we reached a garden gate, he opened it and we stepped inside, the walls hid the rest of the city from view…which was sad, until I saw what was inside the walls, it was a castle. It appeared as if it had grown from the earth itself. It was tall, several stories tall at least, with balconies and turrets, and everything a proper castle should have. I was in love with it from the moment I saw it. I could not wait to see more of it.

 

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Honest opinions wanted!!

Hopefully it won’t take me so long to post the next portion!

Kristi

 

Cartoons

26 Saturday Feb 2011

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Any of my friends can tell you that I LOVE Cartoons. My favorite TV show has been “Scooby-Doo Where are you?!” for over a decade now, and I still enjoy watching it.

Who says cartoons have to be just for kids? I enjoy the reminder of the way things used to be, simple. Who says that a Platypus can’t be a secret agent?! And that two kids (one with a rather pointy-head) can’t build rockets, roller coaster, climb the Eiffel tower and fight mummies? Sure, it isn’t logical, or scientific, but does that make it any less entertaining? I mean let’s face it, adult TV isn’t really very logical either. You have shows like ‘Law and Order’ and ‘Bones’ where they ALWAYS catch the bad guy and everybody is super smart, etc. And shows like ‘Smallville’ where two normal people from Kansas raised an alien who fell from the sky. (And yes, those are some of my favorite shows so I am not knocking them 🙂 )

I am just suggesting that perhaps, we never truly out-grow cartoons. Sure some of us do. There are adults out there who only watch the news, sports and history channels. That is ok, if they want to do that.

However, it is not for me, I am not ashamed to say that I love watching cartoons (even if my two youngest sisters are not home!) I once heard a saying that went something like this “You only begin to age and grow old, when you start acting like it” Who wants that? Certainly not me!

I enjoy the silliness of cartoons, the simplistic-ness, the way I don’t have to worry about who’s with who and who used to be with who and all that nonsense,  it’s relaxing, a great way to take your mind off of all the troubles going on in the world. (Or in your life)

So the next time you are stressed, why not just turn on some cartoons? Hunt up your old favorites (netflix.com has a LOT of old cartoons to watch instantly)

I’ll leave you with a list of some of my favorite cartoons to watch:

Almost any of the Scooby-Doo cartoons

Phineas and Ferb (did you guess that one from above?)

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Invader Zim (Doom!!! And TACOOOS!)

The Rugrats (I was never allowed to watch them as a child, so I am making up for that: P)

Anything Garfield related

Veggie Tales!! (Before the company got sold off)

Jackie Chan Adventures

Hey Arnold!

Danny Phantom

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron

And Cloudy with a Chance of meatballs is one of my favorite movies 🙂

So, what are/were your favorite cartoons? Do you still watch them now?

Now, I’m going to go enjoy a Saturday morning full of cartoons! I hope y’all get to do the same! 🙂

Kristi

 

Music Part III

25 Friday Feb 2011

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Can you tell music is a really big part of my life? 🙂

 

I’m pretty excited right now because last night I found out that all my music from my old laptop that had crashed was actually backed up onto a flash drive that had gone ‘missing’ in the bottom of a desk drawer! (Cleaning does pay off sometimes)

I found the songs from my trip to Europe, most of them I don’t know the names of anymore, but ‘What’s that coming over the hill??’ was a trip favorite I think. 😉 We listened to it several times a day, and all of us really want to know if what was coming over that hill was a monster or not!

I also found my ‘Lord of the Rings’, ‘Matrix’, and ‘Disney Movies’ soundtracks!! Which I am beyond thrilled about! Yes I know those 3 movies don’t exactly go together, but I love them anyway 🙂

Found my very first CD “3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun”, the songs on that CD are full of so many memories, some of them good, some of them just painful.

Curtain Call by Eminem was on there too, along with the Linkin Park collection, and several random songs from my High School days…

I’m thrilled to have found these songs, especially since I was seriously considering buying some of them again next month 😛 There is rarely a time when I’m not listening to music. The first thing I do when I open my laptop is start my music, and it’s the last thing I cut off before going to bed. When I take walks I listen to music, when I drive I listen to music, when I cook I listen to music. The only times I’m not listening to music are when I’m watching tv, or talking to people. I just love music, I enjoy listening to the words and the sounds.

What was your favorite song in High School? Your first CD? (Do you remember?)

 

On another note: I’ve managed to write a little more with Midnight Sun and hopefully I’ll have the next 3 chapters up before the end of this week! So stay tuned!!

 

Kristi

Telepathy

24 Thursday Feb 2011

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So, todays post is going to be a hodge-podge of stuff, because I really couldn’t decide what to write about…

1st off an update on Midnight Run: I’m still in the exact same spot. I’m sorry, I swear I’m trying, but my characters just don’t want to behave! And so they are just sitting and pouting in my laptop. I might have to throw someone new in the mix just to get things going again! Because it’s been far to long since I last worked on it.

As far as writing goes, I’ve written a few short stories and such, just none worth posting here. And I’ll try to get something up for y’all very soon!!

I get the Plinky prompts sent to me once a week, and I liked one of this weeks so I thought I’d throw it in this post too, because I imagine it would be a short answer.

 

If you could read minds for a day, would you?

I’ve always thought telepathy was a pretty cool super power, but at the same time it’s one of the one’s with the biggest burden. Because you are essentially spying on peoples thoughts. Their secrets, things you really shouldn’t know about them. Its even worse than reading someone’s journal, its the deepest invasion of privacy possible.

Would I do it? For just one day? That depends.

Can I choose NOT to read certain peoples thoughts? And can I read thoughts view txt, email, written letters etc? If yes, then YES! I’d totally do it. I’d probably feel guilty forever for doing it, but you know what they say, Curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought her back.

If I would have to read everyone’s thoughts the whole day, I’d say no. That would be a HUGE headache, and there are people whose thoughts I just wouldn’t want to know.

Could I read animals minds? I’ve always wanted to know what they are thinking, it’s why The Immortals Quartet by Tamora Pierce is my favorite book series of all times! And Daine is my favorite character, with Numair coming in second!

Well, I guess that’s about all I have today. It’s been raining since 720 or so and it’s just stopped, I LOVE a good storm, but I hope it eases up enough I can run to town after 2…

I can’t believe it’s already Thursday! Grey’s Anatomy comes out tonight, so I’ll get to watch it tomorrow!! *woot*

I leave you with a question, would you like to mind read for a day? Why or Why not?

 

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