Sprinkles and Cream

SARA HELPEDED ME WITH READING & SOON TO EDIT STORIE!..Ducky.

I've began to write a story for the first time in months! Amazing what can happen if you put me in a quiet room for 11 hours....well I only used 5 of those hours to write the first chapter, but still. Anyway, its about a girl called Eliza, who falls asleep on a love story known as Eros and Psyche. She goes back 1000 years to a time of knights, but there's a catch! There are secret Empires spread throughout Europe. Eliza in her dreams takes the view point of a 14 year old girl reaching her 15th, or in other words known as womanhood, called Ema. In the Adelia, 6 guardian protect the land with mountainous cliffs, and the gift of protection within its walls from disease and the early deaths known throughout the lands outside of its walls. Ema is a young maid in the palace, and has many other secrets which separate her from the rest of the servants in the household or any other girl in Adelia.
How does this connect to Eliza other than being her dream? Well you'll have to find out in the interesting adventours of a young girl in the secret Empire of Adelia.

Ok...actually thats only 1/2 the storyline...I've actually begun to write out the second chapter, but I do claim this under creator's right for Victoria Leeder. Yeah that's me >.> Well, hopefully it'll become a novel someday, but I'll have to translate it from new English to Old someday...hopefully someone can help me!

Also, today's pictures have nothing to do with "Adelia", the first picture is Hookgrip Forest by HOON. And I felt like putting more up so here's, Beyond the Void by syncaidia, Girls by hiliuyun, & Eater of the Dead by mistressofspam.

But I should also mention that there will be fighting scenes in "Adelia" & plenty of them too. The only problem is...that I haven't placed The Empire of Adelia on any map just yet. So I need to do that, or make a multicultural society or maybe an entire new world?


Well there isn't much reading since I'm writing, but I suppose I might as well say that Dusk was AWESOME! I absoulutly loved it! Now to finish The Book of Dreams then I'm off to the Historians.
Hmm...might as well say what the Historians are, right?

"Summary
Amazon.com
If your pulse flutters at the thought of castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page of Elizabeth Kostova's long but beautifully structured thriller The Historian. The story opens in Amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a medieval book and a cache of yellowed letters in her diplomat father's library. The pages of the book are empty except for a woodcut of a dragon. The letters are addressed to: "My dear and unfortunate successor." When the girl confronts her father, he reluctantly confesses an unsettling story: his involvement, twenty years earlier, in a search for his graduate school mentor, who disappeared from his office only moments after confiding to Paul his certainty that Dracula--Vlad the Impaler, an inventively cruel ruler of Wallachia in the mid-15th century--was still alive. The story turns out to concern our narrator directly because Paul's collaborator in the search was a fellow student named Helen Rossi (the unacknowledged daughter of his mentor) and our narrator's long-dead mother, about whom she knows almost nothing. And then her father, leaving just a note, disappears also.

As well as numerous settings, both in and out of the East Bloc, Kostova has three basic story lines to keep straight--one from 1930, when Professor Bartolomew Rossi begins his dangerous research into Dracula, one from 1950, when Professor Rossi's student Paul takes up the scent, and the main narrative from 1972. The criss-crossing story lines mirror the political advances, retreats, triumphs, and losses that shaped Dracula's beleaguered homeland--sometimes with the Byzantines on top, sometimes the Ottomans, sometimes the rag-tag local tribes, or the Orthodox church, and sometimes a fresh conqueror like the Soviet Union.

Although the book is appropriately suspenseful and a delight to read--even the minor characters are distinctive and vividly seen--its most powerful moments are those that describe real horrors. Our narrator recalls that after reading descriptions of Vlad burning young boys or impaling "a large family," she tried to forget the words: "For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history's terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth." The reader, although given a satisfying ending, gets a strong enough dose of European history to temper the usual comforts of the closing words. --Regina Marler."

Well I'm off to bed, night?...or is it morning? [don't look at the time!]

Ayameko.