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Sorry I don't have a Christian image for this, as I don't do the Christian thing, but it's the closest you are going to get. It is Eid al-Adha in most countries, and many have just completed the Hajj, so maybe it's fitting.

I don't mean offence to anyone by it.

The point is that the church next door to us has changed their sign, which now reads

"When faced with adversity turn to God."

But the "A" of adversity is hanging halfway off the board.

It has been hanging like that for days.

There is something very meaningful in that.

I have yet to find a place to put this in anything I am currently working on, but you can be guaranteed that it will show up somewhere.

And since I'm traveling this part of the internet incognito, you will have to read every book published between next year and forever to find it.

"Happy hunting," says the miscreant writer in a diabolical tone!

BWA HA HA!

What you see in this post belongs to me.

I wrote it, not anyone else.

Livejournal has the right to use it because if they didn't you wouldn't be able to read this here, but these words are mine and I own them.

Thieves will be hunted down and have fingers pointed angrily in their direction.

That said, here is a clip of something I have been working on.

Enjoy.

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"This is how Eldest Bripbrer says everything happened, long ago, when times were different..."

Leaves rustled around them as Greegra gave the history for the day, the sun dancing in patches on slick skin or wooden plank, but none of the listeners allowed themselves to be distracted. Every eye in the tree was focused on the blue-black patches of the Eldest’s face, watching every twitch of muscle or relaxation of expression. History was far too important to let anything distract them.

"In the times before, when the world was much newer than it is now, the trees were all that we knew. It was here that we lived, here that we created pools to raise our young, it was here that we learned, and here that we died. In the times before, there were no others of our kind, none that dwelled in the pools below, none that made homes under ground. We were all that there was. We shared our world with other creatures, unaware of our part in its destruction until the Sickness began."

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So I'm not giving you backstory on that, though I will say that it was partly inspired by the way I have heard Native stories told in various locations.

I will say that I am very excited about this project, which I am trying very hard to remake.

Why?

I started this well before Avatar, but then Avatar came out and now this is seeming like I loved that movie so much I decided to make a book series out of it.

True confession:

I didn't like Avatar. I hated it. The whole thing was Ferngully for adults.

No one messes with Robin Williams as Batty. Not in my world.

It doesn't matter that Batty wasn't in Avatar. Maybe that's my point.

Of course it is possible that I only think I'm ripping Avatar off because the characters aren't human and I'm way too self conscious about duplicating something.

Unrelated to shipping squabbles...

Here's a snippet, since the morning has me going.