Attic Mirror: Hump Day Hook 20

It's Wednesday  and I thought it was Tuesday and I even thought tomorrow was Thursday without Wednesday in between. My brain, my brain. Anyway, it's Hump Day Hook again. Find the other writers here. It's also Mid-Week Tease, you can find the other writers here.

If you miss my other hooks, they can all be found here.

Attic Mirror is finally available as a kindle on amazon here and as a pdf on Etsy here and on smashwords here. 

Let's continue with Attic Mirror, we start again just where we left off. Hitomi and Demian are having an Yloc conversation and the red Ylocs are somehow very special for Demian...

“Yes, blue, yellow or red”, Demian answered, “They are used for different things depending on the colour. The blue are very strong, they are good at everything and really fast, few of the others are used in races because except with a very intensive training they wouldn’t beat a blue Yloc. The yellow are used in the mines because they are good at digging in case of accident and they can’t be used on the boats because they are terrible swimmers. The red are the best in the mountain, they are good at climbing and they are good at swimming too. My grand father discovered them”, he said proudly.

“What do you mean discovered them?” Hitomi asked.

“Before, there was no red Ylocs on the coast. My grand father was an explorer just like his dad and grand-dad and my dad too. He went to explore the huge mountains of the East which nobody ever came back from before. People thought that they didn’t come back because they died but my grand-father thought that they didn’t come back because they had found a better place to live up there. He was wrong. But anyway, he went there and one morning as the sun was getting up very slowly on the mountain he heard it, the legendary red Yloc. He ran to try to take a look at it but nothing. The Yloc was too far away and the echoes only, in the mountain had carried his voice to him”, he started to tell, his voice carrying more and more mystery and excitement as he went.

Hitomi was mute and all ears. He continued...”

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Attic Mirror: Hump Day Hook 19

It's Wednesday  and I thought it was Tuesday and I even thought tomorrow was Thursday without Wednesday in between. My brain, my brain. Anyway, it's Hump Day Hook again. Find the other writers here. It's also Mid-Week Tease, you can find the other writers here.

If you miss my other hooks, they can all be found here.

Attic Mirror is finally available as a kindle on amazon here and as a pdf on Etsy here and on smashwords here. 

Let's continue with Attic Mirror. Hitomi and Demian are having an Yloc talk and last week Hitomi asked how they can do everything with Ylocs.

““We start to train them when they are little and then they carry things and people, pull wagons and you can explore the mountains or use them on boats, they bring the food and mail to the cities and they can race too,” he explained.

“Wah,” Hitomi said. “No wonder you found it strange that I didn’t know about them.”

“At first I thought you were just joking and then that you have received a shock on your head or something,” he said laughing.

“I can imagine,” Hitomi said laughing too “Do you have one?”

“I wish, I’m supposed to get one this year but the eggs are really expensive, so I saved money but I’m not sure my parents will afford it,” he said looking a bit ashamed and then jumped to get a picture on his night table. “It’s my father with Araham, his Yloc.”

“So they can be different colours?” Hitomi asked interested, she was thinking that she never had seen blue animals in her world except for some frogs and butterflies but butterflies didn’t really count.”

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Attic Mirror: Hump Day Hook 18

It's Wednesday  and I thought it was Tuesday and I even thought tomorrow was Thursday without Wednesday in between. My brain, my brain. Anyway, it's Hump Day Hook again. Find the other writers here. It's also Mid-Week Tease, you can find the other writers here.

If you miss my other hooks, they can all be found here.

Attic Mirror is finally available as a kindle on amazon here and as a pdf on Etsy here and on smashwords here. 

Last week as there was no Hump Day Hook I gave you a Tease for Blue Angel.

This time, we will continue with Attic Mirror. Hitomi and Demian are having an Yloc talk which degenerate to an ostrich talk

““Of course not! Animals don’t carry things, especially ostriches. We have cars and trucks for that”, she answered.

In front of his bland look she started flipping the pages of the dictionary again.

“It’s a car”, she said.

“And you can go inside?” he asked.

“Sure”, she said pointing at the different parts, “here you have the driver and here and here the passengers.” And she turned the pages to show him a truck.

“How do you feed them? They must eat a lot”, he said.

“Well we use gasoline. It’s a sort of black and nauseating liquid. You put inside and it makes it run for a while”, Hitomi said.

“So you don’t need anything to pull it?” Demian asked.

“No, it works mechanically”, Hitomi said.

“It’s good because it looks really heavy, I wonder how many Ylocs would be needed to move it”, Demian said looking at the picture and then at his own book.

“It is really heavy”, Hitomi said nodding.

“It looks cool though, I would like to try getting in sometimes. Here we do everything with the Ylocs”, he said.

“How do you do that?” she asked.”

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Mid-Week Tease: Blue Angel

There is no Hump Day Hook snippet today but there is still Mid-Week Tease, so for a change, I won't be posting about Attic Mirror.
Instead, here is a little excerpt of my current NaNoWriMo project: Blue Angel.
It's totally unedited as I only just wrote this part yesterday. 

“There is some light over there,” Odeon said.

Torsti looked around everywhere but without success.

“I still can't see a damn thing and I thought your eyes were closed,” he said.

Odeon walked away from the wall confidently.

“Wait!” Torsti said trying not to fall without his marks.

“They are closed, I told you it was better,” Odeon answered.

“So now you can see in the dark,” Torsti answered.

“I can't see in the dark, I can't see with my eyes closed either, just I can feel the light, I just know it's there, I don't need to be attached to my eyes and rely on them all the time, I'm alright,” Odeon said a bit annoyed, “Now if you could shut up and let me listen to what's around, that would help.”

“Sure,” Torsti answered.

He tried to look past Odeon to see if there was really something in this direction but there was still no light what-so-ever. He wondered if it wasn't Odeon's imagination. He could only hear the water drop, somewhere close from the stalactite above him, he had to protect his head to make sure it wasn't hitting them. Odeon seemed just find, walking on the side when one was coming close. Torsti couldn't repress a laugh.

“What's so funny?” Odeon asked.

“I was just thinking, you're a bit like a bat,” Torsti said. “I think I should start call you Batdem.”

“And what should I call you then?” Odeon said shaking his head.

“No idea, but seriously, how do you know where we are going? How do you know that we are not going to fall in a hole at the next step?” Torsti asked.

“Oh, I didn't think about holes on the ground,” Odeon said. “I'll be careful now.”

Here is my NaNoWriMo progress bar. I'm heading for 75k.

 

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Attic Mirror: Hump Day Hook 17

 It's Wednesday Hump Day Hook again. Find the other writers here. It's also Mid-Week Tease, you can find the other writers here.

If you miss my other hooks, they can all be found here.

Attic Mirror is finally available as a kindle on amazon here and as a pdf on Etsy here and on smashwords here. 

We will continue with Attic Mirror. Hitomi and Demian are having an Yloc talk which degenerate to an ostrich talk

“ It looks pretty much like a sort of ostrich,” she said turning her head in front of the picture of a strange blue bird like animal with fur instead of feathers.

“Except for the ears and tail,” she added. “They look more like cat’s ears and tail”.

She said the last one slowly looking up at Demian.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said finally giving up on pretending for good. There was no need to try impressing her anymore. “I guess we are going to have few problems to communicate.”

“Wait,” she said.

She got up to get a very old and dusty illustrated dictionary she had noticed on the shelves earlier. She sat back in front of the mirror, rubbed the cover and started to look for an ostrich.

“Here you go, this is an ostrich,” she said proud of herself. 

She didn’t know what she was proud about really but teaching something was making her feel good.

“It looks funny, it doesn’t seem to have very strong legs, are you really using it to carry things?” he asked.”

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Attic Mirror: Hump Day Hook 16

 It's Wednesday Hump Day Hook again. Find the other writers here. It's also Mid-Week Tease, you can find the other writers here.

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Attic Mirror is finally available as a kindle on amazon here and as a pdf on Etsy here and on smashwords here. 

We will continue with Attic Mirror. Hitomi and Demian are having an Yloc talk...

“ Hitomi was finishing copying his part of the inscription.

“I’ll see if I can find something about it in the library latter on”, she said, “Now can you finally explain me about this Yloc thing and Teneria.”

“Only if you explain me about Japanese”, he said smiling.

“I knew I wasn’t the only one not knowing anything”, she answered relieved.

“I thought you were a normal girl so I couldn’t be stupider than you”, he answered defensively.

“But I’m a normal girl”, she said, “So what changed?”

“You’re different. You’re not from here, all the other girls I know are. So you’re kind of special”, he said blushing a little before opening his book to an Yloc picture to change conversation. He was feeling a bit uncomfortable.

“This is an Yloc”, he said happily.”

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Hump Day Hook: Halloween Special

I know you already had a Hump Day Hook post yesterday and now you are probably asking yourself: "What the hell is she doing?" Or not cause I don't know what's in your head actually. But anyway, yesterday I was a little bit confused because it was Hump Day Hook and we also planned the Halloween Special and nobody seemed to be willing to play with me yesterday so I just decided to write a new special post for HALLOWEEN cause otherwise I wouldn't have written anythings special and just forget Halloween all together at least on the virtual side of my life. OK but enough explanation, here is the Hook! (Other spooky hooks here)

Here is an extract of Teresa's diary from Attic Mirror. 

Friday 3^rd August 1923

I couldn’t write about what happened yesterday last night. My hands were shaking too much. Thinking about it, my heart is still shaking now and I’m not sure I will finish all I have to say in one go. Samantha got me a black dress as soon as we were sure that everybody else would be sleeping. It was about midnight and very dark. I’m not use to wear that kind of sexy outfit but she said that the spirits generally like it. While I dressed up, she had drawn some symbols with a chalk on my bedroom floor, under a carpet so that we could hide them with it afterwards. She told me to sit in front of her in the circle and started to enlighten candles and saying strange things. I knew I had to be quiet and concentrate. I didn’t know on what I was supposed to concentrate so I just followed her moves. It was a bit comical at that point at least. She opened a piece of paper with an alphabet on it and Yes and No and put it in the middle of the circle between us with a glass upside down on it. She started to hold it with two fingers of her left hand and I added mine on it as well. Then she asked.

“Spirits are you here?” I almost wanted to laugh. I would probably have laughed if she hadn’t been so scary all along.

And the glass moved to the Yes. I thought it was Samantha moving it like a bad joke but then she asked again “What’s your name?” and the glass moved to the letters, she even removed her fingers as the spirit in the glass seemed so powerful and it continue to move as she wrote. “Sam Grant”.

She asked “When did you die?” and the spirit answered “silly question.”

Samantha had a little laugh.

“How?”

“Decapitated.”

I was really getting scared why couldn’t we have found the spirit of a nice grand-mother or of a writer or artist, why did it have to be a criminal?

But Samantha seemed to be really enjoying it.

“Do you know magic?”

“Yes”

“Can you teach me?”

“What do you want?”

“Open a passage between two worlds” she said looking at my scared face proudly, her magic was working.

“Which world?” the spirit said.

Samantha had an interrogating look on her face. I gathered my courage and thought about David.

“Do you know Teneria?” I asked.

“Stay away of Teneria or you’ll die,” the spirit started to write but I could hear the words resonating in my head as I felt the glass shaking my hand, arm and my all body. I wasn’t myself anymore. I was pushed away of myself by something coming from the glass. I remember seeing Samantha sizing the glass and throwing it at the wall and then nothing. I woke up in my bed. Samantha was shaking me to bring me back to consciousness. My checks and chin were wet with saliva. I finally muttered that I was fine but my head was hurting like hell and Samantha started to laugh and to tell me how awesome it had been and that she had never seen it happen this way before. All I could do was to…

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Hump Day Hook 15: Attic Mirror

 It's Wednesday Hump Day Hook again. Find the other writers here. It's also Mid-Week Tease, you can find the other writers here.

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Attic Mirror is finally available as a kindle on amazon here and as a pdf on Etsy here and on smashwords here. 

We will continue with Attic Mirror. Last week Hitomi and Demian found strange characters on the mirror... this week, Demian seems to have an explanation.

“It’s because we are looking at it in the mirror, there is a reflection, so the left side appear on the right,” he said.

“I’m not sure, it would be the case if the mirror was reflecting something but it seems to be showing us each other like through a glass,” she answered.

“Raw, that’s confusing,” he said scratching the back of his head comically. Hitomi giggled.

“Lets make a test, I’ll move my right hand and you’ll tell me if it’s the right or left hand of me that you see,” she said.

“Alright,” he said concentrating “hum, it’s your right hand, here too.”

“So there is no reflection, it’s just normal but weird for the letters,” she answered.

“And pretty exciting,” he said.”

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Hump Day Hook 14: Attic Mirror

 It's Wednesday Hump Day Hook again. Find the other writers here. It's also Mid-Week Tease, you can find the other writers here.

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Attic Mirror is finally available as a kindle on amazon here and as a pdf on Etsy here. 

We will continue with Attic Mirror. Today Hitomi is thinking that she is becoming crazy, she just heard some voice coming from inside the mirror apparently...

“I don’t even know where that is?” Hitomi said glad that he finally seemed to understand her. After all Teneria wasn’t on any maps she had studied in class.

He took a deep breath wondering how he could be thinking so fast, everything around him had been so boring lately.

“Do you mean that behind this mirror”, he said touching it on his side, “There is another world?”

Hitomi was not really thinking much, just trying not to freak out at the bizarre meeting. She came closer and started to examine the mirror closely. Concentrating on something made her calm down a little more.

“I guess so, there seems to have some inscriptions on it but I can’t read the alphabet”, she said after few minutes.

“I got some strange drawings on my side too”, he said “but I never thought that they could actually mean something.”

She took her notebook and started to draw the symbols to show them to him. He went to take a sheet of paper on his desk and drew as well. They then started to compare.

“It’s strange”, she said, “it looks like they are the same letters but in the opposite direction.”

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Hump Day Hook 13: Attic Mirror

 It's Wednesday Hump Day Hook again. Find the other writers here. It's also Mid-Week Tease, you can find the other writers here.

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We will continue with Attic Mirror. Today Hitomi is thinking that she is becoming crazy, she just heard some voice coming from inside the mirror apparently...

“ He was finally not that scary after all.

“What’s your name?” she asked.

“Demian Aaron Carter”, he said looking proud. Seeing that she didn’t react he added, “I’m the son of the explorer.”

“Oh”, she said not knowing at all about any explorers of that name. She noted for herself to have a look in the library even though she had always believed that people had stopped exploring the world long ago.

“Never mind”, he answered sitting back on his bed felling weird that someone never heard about his father. “What’s your?”

“Hitomi”, she answered.

“Hitomi, just Hitomi?” he asked a bit puzzled. It was a really short name.

“Yes, just Hitomi”, she answered smiling.

“It’s a nice one”, he said smiling hoping he didn’t offence her with his question.

“It’s Japanese”, Hitomi added knowing that her name wasn’t really a common one for everybody in his part of the world. “What are you reading?”

“The new book about Ylocs that my mum bought me yesterday”, he answered thinking that Japanese was probably a kind of ethnic minority from the mountains.

“Ylocs?” Hitomi thought out loud. She first thought she didn’t hear well, she was pretty sure that the word Yloc wasn’t in the dictionary. “What’s that?” she added.

“You don’t know what an Yloc is? Are you kidding me?” He exclaimed stupefied.

“No, I don’t know, is it something famous?” she asked a bit dubitative, boy used to make big fuse about unknown things all the time, like football players or music bands.

“Famous is not really the word I would have used. They are more indispensable for most things, from which planet are you coming down? You’re strange.” He said trying to laugh and still thinking that she was trying to make fun of him.

“I really don’t know what it is, you’re the strange extraterrestrial of the two”, she said getting a little upset.

“I’m not an extraterrestrial, I’m from right here, I was born in his house in Teneria, just like you but not knowing about Yloc is the strangest thing I ever heard of, how do you get you’re food and mail and travel and all?” he pleaded a bit afraid that she might leave.

“What is Teneria?” Hitomi asked, she was a bit lost but new words were catching her attention as usual like nothing else.

“Wait a minute”, he said, “You mean that you’re not from Teneria.”

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Hump Day Hook 12: Attic Mirror

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We will continue with Attic Mirror. Today Hitomi is thinking that she is becoming crazy, she just heard some voice coming from inside the mirror apparently...

“You’re not crazy, well otherwise we both are but I’m pretty sure I’m not and I’m pretty sure I’m awake too,” he said putting down his book to come closer. 

She turned to look at him again a bit confused. He was smiling nicely to her and she kind of liked that smile.

“Are you some kind of ghost?” she asked

“And are you some kind of spirit?” he answered laughing a little.

She was looking more and more confused and really didn’t know what to think of all that and he could see it. He was a bit confused too but didn’t want to let her know.

“Listen, I kind of think that it’s pretty cool, I mean to have you appear like that in my mirror. It had always been weird and reddish. I always thought something was wrong with it. But, if you’re feeling awkward, I’ll just put something on my mirror and leave you alone so that you can enjoy yours,” he said turning around to get a blue cover with strange animals drawn on it on his bed. “You’ll just have to knock at the mirror when you go away so that I can use mine again,” he said preparing himself to throw the cover on his side of the mirror.

He was looking a bit sad his cover in his hands and it made Hitomi calm down a little.

“Wait, wait, it’s just weird but I have seen weirder, I see weirder everyday actually,” she said thinking about how one of her brothers had become invisible earlier to make another one of them explode some bottles of paint.

“Really, you must have a very excited life,” the boy said, happy that she had decided to stay a bit.

“Not really, it’s more that things happen around me,” she said. She had always seen herself as the passive spectator for her siblings’ crazy life. 

They were always so full of energy that at time she felt like they were draining hers out of her body.

“I know the feeling, you look at them wishing for something extraordinary to be yours but it’s only happening to others,” the boy said smiling as if she was the extraordinary thing he had been waiting all along.

“Pretty much, I mostly have…” she started and hesitated. She wasn’t sure if it was too safe to share her thoughts with a complete stranger.

“The bad consequences,” he finished making her feel like he was maybe not that much of a stranger after all.

“Yeah,” she said and they laughed together.”

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