Nano project #5 is the first novella in a series of 8, following 8 students through their 8 years at Doomsday Academy.
That means, of course, I need to figure out 8 students. Three I had pregenerated: The Catboy Samurai and his best friends Sianna the dancer and Sweetbriar the prickly. The other five…
Here’s a little something about one.
I’m about to the point where I have to start deciding if these are 5 different characters or bits from the same people. Also, I could use more: http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/977386.html on LJ or http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/849230.html on DW.
The birds were following you.
The birds had always been following you, as long as you could remember.
But you were leaving home, now. You were leaving everything you’d ever known, and the birds – the birds were still following.
The loud ones were yelling at you, which wasn’t the most fun in the world, but it was worse because you were on a wagon with other people, all of them heading towards Boom Town, Cynopolis, and they were starting to look at you funny.
A sparrow landed on your shoulder. “Oh,” the nice lady next to you exclaimed, “he must be hungry.”
You didn’t have the heart to point out that the dull coloration meant that the little bird was a girl. “Just lonely,” you said instead. “There aren’t that many sparrows around here.”
From the look on her face, it may not have been the safer answer.
This entry was originally posted at http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/851712.html. You can comment here or there.