Audio Release for Yelen & Yelena Chapter 15: A New Arrival

Velna arrives in the castle and meets the monster of the fireside tales, but is she the same woman Yelena knew? Stick around for my Indie Author Spotlights and shout-outs at the end, and head to cmrosens.com/author-spotlight-series to check them all out!

CWs: Loss of agency and autonomy, depression themes – these increase from this chapter onwards.

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Music Credits:

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Intro/Outro: Quinn’s Song: The Dance Begins

Soundtrack: Morgana Rides

Velna Arrives

Being a vessel is not outright possession, it takes a while, and I’m going to play with this vessel idea in later Gothick Fantasia stories, and also introduce a similar concept into the Pagham-on-Sea stories when I get around to writing the Egg and Gwen Mysteries (a spin-off historical fiction series set from WWI through to WWII, and possibly into the early 1950s, before Fairwood House is cursed in 1958).

This is the chapter where you start to see Velna’s possession a little bit, not just in her, but in the way Yelen reacts to her, and little hints in the way she reacts to her surroundings. He’s not very friendly, and his instinct is to retreat into a game with Yelena, while being openly hostile to Velna because he thinks initially she didn’t help when Yelena was ejected from the village.

Some of this is reflecting the way he reacted to Yelena at the start as well, and the fact he’s currently irritable and depressed, and not responding well to his home being invaded again by the outside world.

The cruel Yelen will come out more, the longer Velna-as-vessel stays in close proximity to him, and he has to wrestle with that.

I think the more you see of Yelen’s latent cruelty, the clearer it becomes that if he does transform back into a man at any point, that would mean he’s basically lost the battle to be better.

Enjoy Chapter 15: A New Arrival, in the meantime! If you want to get early access to the next chapters, join one of my Ko-Fi memberships.