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@mischievous-thwapling

Hi! Thanks for the welcome! I can’t wait to find out more about Rilyn and Konyar. They sound awesome in your summary!

“You sound really cheesy,” Rilyn told him, though a hint of a smile played at her mouth.

“Well,” said Konyar defensively, “Thwaping’s writing this on, like, two hours of sleep, so cut her some slack.”

“Thwapling?” Rilyn cocked her head to the side. “Who’s Thwapling?”

Konyar shrugged. “You know… the person who could make us live in a magical gnome universe with man-eating fuzzballs with a simple click of her fingers on the keyboard.”

LOL! I love that! Fourth-wall breaking is always fun, especially since Konyar can do it but Rilyn doesn’t.

Sorry for completely disappearing. A LOT of stuff happened in my family

I hope everything’s alright now😉

@this-is-not-an-alien

Hi Cathy!

Thanks! It’s sorta a thing for me in nonwritten world that I’ve always been fascinated with peoples’ voices and verbal ticks and phrasing and I think Liorah has a pretty distinctive voice too; she’s a bit of Kiark’s in a more feminine way and Lizzy from Pride and Prejudice

I totally understand that! I also really like to just listen to how people phrase things, specific recurring phrases, and accents, etc. Thank you! I’m so glad Liorah has a distinctive voice, I struggle with getting it on paper the way I think it XD It’s so cool that you think Liorah sounds like Lizzy! I never noticed, but now you mention it I can totally see what you mean! That’s so cool!

@joelle-stone

Hi Joelle!

I LOVE the idea you came up with for Riure! It’s brilliant!

Liorah

A loud, sweet laugh rang through the cave, breaking through the sounds of battle. I recognized it as belonging to the blind girl. Relief washed over me. So she was alright. Oddly enough, the creature on top of me flinched. It curled its claws into my flesh as a cat would do. I shrank against the rock, biting my lip to keep from screaming.

“Hey everyone, laugh as loud as you can!” The blind girl shouted, “It hurts them!”

I gritted my teeth.

“Maybe later. I’m a bit preoccupied.” I mumbled, even though nobody could hear me. The creature growled, bringing its huge teeth closer to my throat. Another loud laugh reverberated through the cave. The wolfish creature cowered, only to growl more fiercely.

I wriggled my right arm, trying to free it from the weight. I just needed to get my dagger. A few more inches. Its claws dug deeper into me until I couldn’t keep quiet.

“You mangy wolf-beast,” I snarled, already inventing a few more colorful adjectives.

A hiss. A thud. The creature on top of me gave a deafening roar that hurt my ears. It tore its claws out of my arms, then thudded to the ground, dead or unconscious. I rolled away from the creature, getting out of reach of the claws. An arrow stuck out of the creature’s back.

I glanced toward the girl with the bow. Blood ran down her right shoulder and she held it stiffly. How had she shot with that shoulder? I drew my dagger and finished off the beast, just in case.

I dropped another bullet in my sling and slung it at a creature attacking the girl. It dropped. I glanced down at my arms. Scarlet blood stained the marks where the creature had clawed me. I needed to get out of here. I started backing toward one of the passages, keeping the weight off my bad leg. I occasionally shot down a beast that came too close for comfort and tried to cover the bow-girl’s back. It was the least I could do.

Two huge lizard-like creatures stood near a high passage, and the blind girl was climbing down. She was okay.

I backed into a passage, managing to make it a few steps back before my leg finally gave out and I collapsed to the ground. I tried to stem the blood flowing from my torn leg.

“Okay, maybe I didn’t quite think through breaking that mirror,” I muttered to myself.