The Ethereal Battle

Rome's Evolution is not only about our favorite heroine's ascension in terms of personal power, it is also an evolution in how I wrote stories. For example, I never really had a good handle on fight scenes. In Rome's Revolution, I had a choreographed fight beneath Kilauea between Rome and Rei and Estar and her guard but it wasn't that well done. It took me days of marching back and forth across my basement carpet trying to figure out where each combatant's limbs were at all times.

In Rome's Evolution, I kicked it up a notch with the fight scene between Rei and Dan Steele, the would-be assassin. I had been planning that scene since the beginning. That was the reason for giving Rei the portable PPT tunnel vest to protect his back. In that scene, Steele lost a hand and then he lost his consciousness when Rome bashed him over the head with a rock.

But now we are getting to the denouement of Rome's Evolution and I wanted the fight to take place on two planes. One was the earthly plane, one that we could all see. The second was on the ethereal plane, one that could only be seen in the mind. I got it into my head that each person could have a their own specific color, like tinted ghosts and the colors would help you figure out who was doing what.

I made Rome red and Rei blue. Lupe, who had just been conceived, was floating around as a tiny pink wisp. Reema, the leader of the Onsiras, would be orange. Sussen, who comes along at the most inopportune time would be emerald green and MASAL's Sipre or Shadow would be black. Late to the fight, Bonnie came in colored brightly yellow. It's a good thing I didn't have more characters because I would have run out of colors!

So it would be a battle royale of minds and spirits and colors taking place in two universes, one of the mind and one of the body. I flashed back and forth showing you the physical toll that the mental battle extracted. It's pretty interesting so let's get to it.