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Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Tuesday Travel 66: Witch Raising: The Book of Fire

Welcome to Tuesday Travel. Every Tuesday, I will be presenting an excerpt of Witch Raising: The Book of Fire, the book in which Brownie, the heroine of Demon Soul, is undertaking an initiatory journey.

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About Witch Raising: The Book of Fire

Witch Raising is a new series with Brownie, the heroine of Demon Soul as the main character. This series is part of the House at the Crossing Series and follows Demon Soul and Demon and Fairy but instead of being centered on the adventure of Sahel and his demon friends, it follows Brownie as she goes from being a normal girl to a bad ass witch. She has been practicing magick for a while now, saving people from difficult situations but the people at the house, including Sahel aren't happy with her new calling. Feeling that she doesn't have a choice and has to keep learning witchcraft, Brownie leaves to meet other witches.

The excerpt, we start where we left off last week  

The old Graddy's owner and one of the waiter arrived a few minutes later with plates. Marri and Sandy had asked for a version without the beef. They were given a rather bad look but they were given their potato cheese stew anyway.
The meals were presented on black font plates in the center of a wooden board. The wooden board was a bit hot and Brownie was careful not to touch the plate. The Stew was smoking hot. It seemed a bit strange to have a fire stew that didn't leave you on fire but the meal was appropriate for the season. It was starting to get cold, especially in the evening and it was warming her up from the inside out.
It was a bit strange though to eat something with mostly potatoes, that wasn't something she had tasted before and there was really a lot of cheese. They were also given little pieces of bread just out of the oven they were supposed to used to deep into the stew and eat with. It was delicious and Brownie couldn't even taste the wine in there. It reminded her a little bit of a Hachi Parmentier mixed with a Coq au Vin with a cheese sauce.
"So what about the Fire Stew?" Josh asked.
"Way more stew than fire," Samuel answered. "I wanted something spicy, don't they have anything spicy around?"
"It's not really the region for spice," Samantha answered.
"Oh yeah, cause of course you would know," Samuel said.
She taped her fingers on her book but didn't answer. Brownie got the drift. She was happy the stew wasn't spicy. The potatoes were already filling up her stomach as if they were stones. She couldn't imagine how it would have worked with spicy stones.
She took a sip of water. All the others had ordered wine to go with the stew but she wasn't in the mood for drinking. Actually, she had never drunk alcohol before and she had heard too many horror stories about drinking with strangers or people you didn't know too well. She needed all her senses to protect herself and she didn't see how she would be able to rise a barrier if she was inebriated. It didn't work well without concentration and alcohol was forbidding just that.


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Monday, August 3, 2020

Mystery Monday 69: Harajuku Kiss

Welcome Mystery Monday. For this weekly writing blog post, I will be presenting snippets of my novel Harajuku Kiss, a mystery romance in Japan.
I hope you'll enjoy following our heroine through her thoughts and adventures.


About Harajuku Kiss

At times, life can be so depressing. She is walking her usual recovery tour in Harajuku, finishing with a crepe, trying to forget that her boyfriend dumped her once again for the week-end... When the unthinkable happens... A boy stops in front of her in the street and kisses her, in the middle of the street, before running away.
Trying to discover more about him, she is dragged into a dangerous game of mystery. A biologist has been murdered and a deadly virus is on the loose. First suspect: the mysterious Harajuku's stranger.

Here is the snippet for this week

The criminals looked scary enough, I always wondered why criminals always looked scary on pictures and on television and if they looked scary in real life. It seemed strange as after all they are just people. I guess our mind are programmed to think they are scary because we already know they did something bad. My old policeman also looked scary, I stared at him a little too long trying to figure out if his face would fit on the picture board and he gave me such a nasty look that I did agree that it would fit. I turned back to look at the pictures.


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Sunday, August 2, 2020

Azone Ikebukuro, Dollyteria and A NEW DOLL (with video)

Today I was in Ikebukuro so I used this opportunity to visit the azone store and Dollyteria.
I was secretly looking for the dolls on sales that I had noticed on twitter but I was a bit too late for those. Still I managed to find a Cream Anmitsu Yuzuha Pico Neemo! She was the last one in store so after hesitating on getting her, I finally took her home.
The Cream Anmitsu Yuzuha is the only one in the Sweet Sweet a la mode series of pureneemo to have two versions. It was a bit hard to get them both. The piconeemo serie however only have one version so I'm really happy to have her with her two big sisters.
Now, I'm just missing two dolls in this Pico Sahra's a la mode series so fingers crossed I'll get them one day!

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Friday, July 31, 2020

Vampire Friday: Vampire Heart 284

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Summary of the previous episodes: Viorel has been tortured by his supposed family who wanted to have him burn in the sun. Strangely enough the sun didn't burn him as expected but Viorel has no memory of who he is. Following the advises of his supposed father, he left Sighișoara and is now traveling to the West. After some skirmish in a previous city, he found refuge on a boat. Viorel is now in Vienna. The little problem is that the guy at the inn was a bit of an asshole and helped capture Viorel thinking he was a vampire, which he is but nobody needs to know. Now there is a huge man (which I call the colossi) taking care of Viorel and a priest. They brought a girl. Torture my holy water... Fail. Viorel managed to confuse everyone, now he would like to get out of here. But the girl seems pretty useless. They still managed to escape and he left the girl to the care of the boat lady before going back to have two words with his captors but his power of persuasion were failing him. The priest wanted to crack a deal but Viorel is not really up to help his enemies. He finally got some blood but he can't risk to stay in Vienna. He travel to Linz were he stays a bit to learn German.
Viorel wanted to go to Praha but redirect himself toward Augsburg instead where he wants to get a horse, except that the horses are a bit scared of his vampirism and maybe something else. Viorel is really not a horse expert. Then he comes into an altercation with couple of people, he wants some fear in his blood. The girl Viorel has found seemed to enjoy the game. Viorel prepares for the nightmares that come with a feast of blood, in a rush to leave, he cross the dukedom of Lorrain.
We introduced Sorina, three weeks after the beginning of Viorel's escape.
Viorel dreamed of Sorina and woke up not really remembering anything. Traveling to Paris, he arrives at "La cour des miracles". He is rescued by a stranger who turned out to be Nicolas Flamel, the alchemist he was looking for. Nicolas does some strange experiment without Viorel's agreement. Some people are looking for Nicolas's secrets. On the other side of Europe, Sorina awakes and Viorel's past in haunting him. Viorel discovered that he can change into a wolf but that's not the easiest thing to handle. After finding out that a younger version of Nicolas might not be acting with his best interest at heart, Viorel decides to leave for the north. He is now traveling with two people, Alexej who needed to get out of Praha and Irina who he accidentally rescued.

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Now, let's continue with Vampire Heart, right where we left off last week


I could imagine that he had been in pain, Vampires didn’t really need to digest they only drunk block, sucking it inside of them and it would go through the skin in the mouth and throat and stomach and been absorb and float the veins propagating in the all body as the sucking went on and filling us with power and strength. I wonder if the vampire chewing on his meat had been trying to absorb something else because he was so thirsty. The Jäger never really said anything about it for they didn’t ask that kind of questions, they only observed and tortured the vampire to get another kind of answer. They wanted a knowledge that you render them immortal but no vampires could have given it to them. All it was about really was the philosopher stone again and they were trying to get it through means that even Nicolas who might have been willing to go to extended experiment would have though despicable. The journals went on and on about the vampire body and the transformation and the oddity of comportment. There was nothing odd for me with the vampires, they were trying to escape their fate, to survive or to kill themselves. One of them even walked in the sun from his own will apparently, I was doubting it as the Jäger seemed aware of what would happen to him. The poor fool probably didn’t know what was awaiting him. 

The Jäger taking it on vampires would surprise me much and it was fair and square somehow, they wanted something, they killed us for it and we killed them in return but them taking it on new born vampires they could have educated to fill their needs was revulsive for me. It was the worse it was what made them exactly the same as they would depict us. They were inhuman monsters and according to Irina as the kingdom of Poland was famous for legends and magick, there might have a lot of them all around us. She would look at any clergy men with a suspicious look trying to see if they belonged to the Jäger, she said she would feel them by the way they would look at me and at her because we sounded, especially me, like foreigner. At the same time, she was forcing me to go to church with her and we had to bring Alexej as well. He wasn’t really reticent about it but he was a lot happier after going out. Irina said that going to church was the only way for us not too long to suspicious and I somehow agreed with her. Going to church was fairly new to me and it was an interesting experience as well. The inside of the different churches we crossed on our way was always the same. Statues of saint and Jesus, they couldn’t represent their god so they had chosen a substitute they called his son, painting sometimes terrible and violent, stained glasses always in bright color and at the start I had trouble seeing the shape drawn on them clearly. And the priest with his bible, talking and talking for more than an hour without interruption except for some thinking sometimes. People kneeling at the front or standing at the back with their hat on their chest and praying. They would repeat the words of the priest and I would halfheartedly repeat them under Irina’s pressure.

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