Finn and Elara: Exploring Boundaries in a New Realm
Editing, Editing, Editing…when do I get back to writing?
I am happy to say I’ve finished my editing and re-write of sections of A New Past to create a less explicit version of the story. I’m not getting the final formatting sorted out and posted on Amazon for publishing.
It’s been a lot of work to re-work sections of the novels to make them suitable for a younger readership. Just to be clear, they are not into the YA category, quite, but they are also safely in the PG-13 or R category for US readers.
Meanwhile, I’ve been kicking around ideas and snippets for other work, both explicit and mainstream. I have one mainstream story that I think will be my next focus before jumping back to writing a sequel to Technomancer. I’m capturing ideas about that sequel as I work on this other project. To keep readers here interested, here is a short excerpt of the draft opening to the next chapter in FInn and Elara’s tale.
Seeing the end of a world was sobering.
Finn looked out from the ship sailing steadily toward the point the sun had risen from, but knew they would never reach the point. The ship would reach A point, but they would get there through some quantum, or magical, mechanism which would reposition them elsewhere on the surrounding sea.
For months, he had searched to unravel the mysteries of the world he now lived in with Elara. For months, he had struggled with the strange topology of this world. Now, he had proof with his own eyes that it was not a world. Realm was an apt descriptor. With his new goddess-given sight, he could see the fluctuations that defined the end of the world, spreading like a fountain from to flatten against an unseen barrier and bend back toward the land.
It was literally the boundary, edge, or border of this world.
What lay beyond it was unknowable. All the magical and quantum energy from this realm was reflected by that impenetrable barrier. It was the end.
“What do you see?” Elara asked as she moved to stand beside him at the railing of the small sailing ship they had hired.
“The end of the world,” Finn muttered.
She looked at him in alarm.
“What do you mean?”
“The edge, the boundary that marks the limit of our travels.”
She looked ahead. “I don’t see any barrier.”
“It isn’t meant to be seen, but it is there. I can see the flow of magic, the quanta that make magic, bend back toward us. Nothing of this world or mine will penetrate that to see what lies beyond.”
Elara slipped her arm into his, hugging him as she liked to do when they were alone together. “Is that so bad?”
Finn shook his head.
“It’s not bad, exactly, but it’s not good. It means I need to shift my thinking. Realm is a good description for this place called the Enchanted Forest. I suspect it fits the other Realms you know of as well.”
“And?” Her Lunar intution let her know there was more.
“And, that means a large group of my theories and ideas for being able to travel back to my home will be fruitless.”
“So you’ll consider other ideas. You’re a brilliant man, Finn. Malachi was able to send me to your world, and bring both of us back here, so there must be a way to accomplish your own return. Don’t give up so easily.”
Finn chuckled. “Since when did you turn into a cheerleader?”
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