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Hey, so I am working on an outline for a story about an African teen named Ambrose whose fictional tribe was basically anialated by rebels, and he gets caught on the edge of an explosion that scars his face which leads him to Medical personal Yona and his Irish wife Lydia “Bibi Miti”. After a series of events Ambrose, Yona and Lydia enter this doorway to a world I have not yet named. The territory they land in is simular to Africa, but a number of differences help the characters dstiguish it from Earth. They then get captured and enslaved by one of the tribes living there. And escape later yada yada….

Originally, they were to be there over a year, but I ran into a cunundrome because one of the things that raises the stakes during the escape is that Lydia is pregnant with her master’s child. I thought on looking at how that effects her intimacy with her husband but then felt that was not my story to tell and might be a little on the nose; however, I’m not sure if I should scrap the idea fully (which lowers my stakes and the emotional wieght) or just take it another direction and then figure out what direction that is. If I make the baby Yona’s then I will either have to decrease the time in captivity which will hinder language learning, or keep the pair together in captivity which erases some of the emotional wieght of their slavery and will limit the character arc I wanted. I’ve been praying about it but am still not sure. I want to be cognisant of other people’s sensibilities and weaknesses (and my own) around sensitive stuff  but not gloss over the hard topics in life. I’ve read some great authors who could pull it off and hope I could do the same but I am not sure I can. Anyone got any thoughts or insites, that would be great. Thanks