Tuesday Travel 55: 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  

She should know, she thought she knew but she was a bit confused now. Because she had fallen in love with Yue for his soul but had still loved him without it until he left forever and she had found his soul back but the time and memories she had with Sahel were nothing compared to the time with Yue and even if Sahel had his soul. She didn't know what to think anymore, or what to feel. There was too much tension, too many problems. There was nothing bringing them together that they could hold onto.

"I think I could teach you the cards but I don't think you came here for that," the woman said. "I think you came here because you need to control your own fire."

"What does that mean? What am I supposed to do?" Brownie said.

"I don't know, the woman answered. "But it is the Fire Lion Festival starting tomorrow and you arrived today. If I were you, I would take that as a sign and look around tomorrow. What you really need to find generally finds you."

She smiled and let go of Brownie's hand.

"Now let me see if I can go and find you a deck that you can use. If you want to keep it, I'll add it to the bill."

"How much for the room?" Brownie asked.

"32 per nights so if you stay the four nights as I predicted, that'll be 124 in total." The woman answered.

"All right, I'm taking it," Brownie answered, trying to show that she was in control even if she really didn't feel like it.

"Of course," the woman said. "You can find a list of the closest restaurant downstairs."

She left the room and Brownie lied down on the bed. She was hungry. She took a jacket out of her pack and a smaller bag where she put a book, her wallet and she locked her backpack in the safe. She left Viorel's food out on the bed as both bags wouldn't fit in and walked out not forgetting to lock the door behind her. She slide the key in her pocket. Now to remember how to go downstairs.

She took the stairs, walked passed the girls' bathroom and in front of several 6 bed rooms.

"So you finally made it here I see," a voice she recognized as the voice of the boy from the train station called to her.

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Mystery Monday 58: 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

I had in front of me the picture of a dead man, lying on the muddy ground of a pond's berg in one of Tokyo’s park. I reached my mouth with my hand feeling my stomach going up. I hurried to the toilet to vomit. The guy on the picture was unrecognizable; his face had been smashed so hard that I could see the white of the bone of his cheek. As I vomited my stinking bile and half of my partially digested diner in the toilet, I couldn’t erase the face from my mind. I just kept on vomiting, until nothing was left and sat near the toilet.

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WeWriWar 328: The House at the Crossing 34

 

Hello everybody and welcome for a new Sunday of writing with Weekend Writing Warrior and Snippet Sunday!

Let's continue with  "The House at the Crossing" and it's a prequel to Demon Soul and the demon series. It's a bit of a mix of Fantasy and Science-fiction.

It follows one of the books more obscure character as she first come into the House. It's suppose to explain why there are so many people is the house and sort of where they come from and at the same time be a first time adventure for the main character as she needs to adapt to her new role and the new version of who she is. 

Let's start right at where we left off last week !

Little Malicia starts to cry and her mother, I, the other version of me pics her up from her crib. Hiroshi stirs in his sleep but doesn't wake up. I'm glad he is sleeping through all this, I wish I were too, I don't know how he does it.

“She needs a bottle, I'll make it for you,” the other me, with the short hair, said.

She seems surprised, she hesitates but the other one with Malicia in her arms give her an encouraging smile.

“I don't know anything about babies,” the short haired one said.

“Of course you know,” Teresa says. “Because if they know, so do you.”

She opens the suitcase of the other one and take out the milk powder and the baby bottle as naturally as if she was looking in her own backpack. My individuality wants to yell but I know too, where everything is in that suitcase because somehow I put it there, even if that's not my stuff. If she put it there, so did I.

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Vampire Friday: Vampire Heart 273

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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 wasn’t sure she would be able to wake up, humans were so easily dying that I was suddenly frightened.

“I won’t drink your blood again,” I had spoken before I had thought about it carefully but somehow I knew I couldn’t let her die.

It was the reason why Sorina’s father refused to let her play with the rabbits I brought her and the reason why my mum had taken me to play with Sorina when she was still a little human in the first place. She thought that by spending time with humans, I would grow attached to them, like Sorina grew attached to the rabbits and I would think twice before killing them in the same way Sorina cried when her father killed the rabbits to eat them. In a way my mother was right. If I was spending time with humans I would grew attached to them and unable to kill them but I wasn’t getting attached to every single one of them, just to the one I considered mine because they had created a bound with me, because they had entered my memory. The lady on the boat who had taken me to Vienna, Nicolas and Perenelle and now Irina, they were humans I couldn’t kill and I felt like if I was to drink from Irina again I would kill her.

“Why not? I told you you could, I told you it made me feel good,” Irina said sitting up. She had done it a bit too fast and she held her head in her hand.

I stood up angry. I was angry at myself because she could have died during the night without anyone to revive her and I was angry at her for even thinking it was alright, and more even that it was alright to be drunk from by a vampire. The only thought of someone happy to have their life sucked slowly away from them disgusted me. I wasn’t Nicolas, I couldn’t carry on for the sake of experiment even if I wanted to know how she felt after I was feeding even if I wanted to know if she could feel my memories like I did hers.

“Because you almost died,” I said rounding around to face the door.

I couldn’t even look at her.

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