Maya Joelle

TULLIAN/VOLTEMAND

It was dark. Too dark to be canny.

“Where are we?” Tullian’s whisper boomed into echoing space.

Voltemand didn’t answer. He walked forward a few cautious steps, listening.

From somewhere in front of them, a noise like scuffling and whispering from a crowd of people was going on.

“Now would be a good time to do some of your…[Read more]

“Arsene Lupin is my name, young man.” Young man? Alessio raised an eyebrow like Arsene swapped brains with a stereotypical grey-headed grandfather. “Saga died in a ditch somewhere outside Mithril. Isn’t that right, dearest brighter of mine?”

Alessio glanced between them uneasily. That was very specific for a random quip – what happened to…[Read more]

Leana’s eyes nearly jumped from her head. WHAT? “I… Don’t mean to kill anybody?” She leaned close to the door, brows furrowed. At the moment, anyway… 
(She’s never killed anybody. Now, that baby bird she ‘saved’ years ago? Yes..? But that was a horrible accident.)

“You guys alright?”

@calidris no. My mom and sisters are, though! That’s frustrating, but it sounds normal. I think it’s related to my problem. I want my WIP to be absolutely perfect, and I’m scared that if I write it, it won’t be…I know, not the brightest philosophy, but there it is. I love plotting stories! Let me know if you ever think another brain would help–…[Read more]

“Saga Lore Longwei, I’m forty…five years old…” Arsene answered, not fully in control of his mind yet.

“Saga…is that your real name…?” Alessio asked with a very hopeful expression.

…Whoops… Well, no going back now. “Arsene Lupin is my name, young man. Saga died in a ditch somewhere outside of Mithril. Isn’t that right, dearest brother of m…[Read more]

Val:

I glance back as the wall behind me suddenly creaks, rolling forward with a grinding screech.  “The room’s shrinking!” someone yells.  I stumble, yanking Calix forward as the crowd surges around us.  The walls in front roll back, parting as we flee the room.  It’s so much darker in this new room.  I shrink back as people bump into me, brus…[Read more]

Leana bounced on her heels, outside the door. She glanced both ways, down the hall, Am I waking them up? She knocked softly, again, and decided she wouldn’t knock a third time.

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@ragnarok @this-is-not-an-alien @ethan-leonard

@calidris

I’m going to start the next challenge!  We can still continue our character interactions, if you’d like 🙂

Sounds good!

@emily-waldorf

It’s great to see you back! And, I hope that ankle heals up well.

My two characters are Cahira Beckwith and Conroy Flinston.

Cahira (my MC) is a selfish, spoiled, arrogant girl who is also rath…[Read more]

@calidris

I’m happy to be a resource for you if you want 🙂 XD I’d love an excuse to infodump about plants! It’s also useful knowledge for writing 😁 The plants that can poison you if you smell either are Poison Hemlock and Water Hemlock. They have little toxic spores that can wreak havoc when inhaled, though they won’t necessarily always kill (b…[Read more]

@inkhorn @mamaauthoress I’m going to start the next challenge!  We can still continue our character interactions, if you’d like 🙂

@mamaauthoress

“C-Calix,” the boy wheezes as he takes my hand.  “Calix Meir.”

“Nice to meet you.” I smile as I pull him out of the corner.  He nods, hand trembling.  Are you sure you’re ok?

We can talk about that later.  Right now, I have to find Kit.  I glance around the room, a sharp retort suddenly catching my attention.  Kit’s standing in…[Read more]

@emily-waldorf Lets see…

@mamauthoress has Eve and Calix – siblings who wield immensely powerful magic in their world

@e-n-leonard‘s siblings @lady-grace and @ethan-leonard joined SE!

@e-n-leonard has Mara, who’s actually an antagonist in her story (but I love her so much :’)

@lady-grace has Yarrow, a teen boy in a fantasy…[Read more]

Alessio was in the middle of panicking over Arsene when there was a faint tap on the door. He might’ve tensed if he wasn’t as tense as humanly possible already. There was a sound of a slight jiggling of the lock, and Alessio bit his lip, glancing around.

From the sound – not aggressive. Perhaps dangerous, likely female (there’s just like, the kin…[Read more]

@calidris

CALIX:

“Well…Usually the castle likes to throw challenges our way,” the girl started. “They’re not deadly as far as I can tell, but they’re awful nonetheless. Last time, we had to share our worst regrets, or have them played out on a screen in front of us …” her voice caught. “It was horrible, and there were some I wish I’d never see…[Read more]

@calidris thanks! I know Kit, Val, Myra, and Frey, but who are the other folks in here? That last challenge sounded so awesome!!

I’m not sure yet who I’ll drop in.

My writing is… complicated. I’m taking a prose course (from Story Embers’ very own Hope Ann), and have not been doing much else, which is driving me mad. Maybe this castle will…[Read more]

After Leana and Crorie finally laid down to go to sleep, Leana found herself staring at the ceiling. She wished it was sky, above, so she could see the stars. Leana could name almost all of the glowing embers. At least the closest ones. Papa said he didn’t know the fainter ones, as well. And more or less guessed their names, from the reaches of…[Read more]

@emily-waldorf Welcome back!  We’ve got plenty of room if you want to add someone!

So, the characters have just completed a challenge where they meet their future self…which was…interesting.  I think this challenge definitely pushed Kit and Val closer to a formal confession, but Kit decided to start bickering with someone instead, so it’s g…[Read more]

*peeks around corner. Waves* hello everyone. What’s going on these days? Who all are in the castle, and may I throw in a character, or are you over- stuffed? (“No, no room” is a fine answer, since I’ll probably go back to not having time once I get over this broken ankle!)

“Yeah. I’m about tired of waiting for those slow-punks in there.” They were still fighting? Talk about petty. Nathair guessed he couldn’t have been out that long then. “So what do’ya think the response time for law-enforcement – whatever they call it here – is anyway?”

“Far too long, undoubtedly.” Nathair said with no hesitation as someone…[Read more]

I waited a bit for probably-Snake-Punk to wake up. I spent that time very productively and not at all chewing on my claws! (Don’t tell Search. She’ll kill me.

Well, she won’t. But Drake might.)

I miss them. Darn. Didn’t think I had it in me.

“Ah… well, how long was I out?”

Hm. Where have I heard that line before?

(Drake. Search. Whitely. Even…[Read more]