# Document — Anothen/.gemini/tmp/apps/tool-outputs/session-2834ac85-277d-41eb-9df1-483069fa296b/run_shell_command_1773307317453_0.txt Output: READING FROM CHARACTER 640000 TO THE END (705978) ---------------------------------------- ow vacant Strucity Conlegium and Evan acquires some potent struSee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliSee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliSee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliGolth takes off alone to save Kaeli from a Jeslin dome. Before he goes, Evan gives him a communicator thingy and asks him to send them charts and graphs on the Jeslin domes and cities. Golth runs to save Kaeli. While inside, he is able to send the info to Evan, but the Jeslin are coming. He gets to Kaeli, they confess their love for one another, making Golth as happy as happy can be. The situation is hopeless though, no way out and the Jeslin will be through in moments. Golth and Kaeli set the gun to overload at the bacterial core, intending only to kill themselves before the Jeslin can get to them. The explosion triggers a chain reaction, igniting all of the reactive stuff (bacteria themselves, their waste product, not sure – figure this out) and it blows the whole dome to pieces. The crew, standing on a cliff side leading into the mountains, watches the whole See, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliEvan sits down with the dome blueprints and sees where Kaeli and Golth were at when they overloaded the weapon, figures out whSee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliKezhenie is caught in the woods by Bynun who instantly wants to kill her. Prax stops him barely and is surprised that she speaks a little of his language (Kaerick). Evan, however, just happens to be fluent in Zhandugheen (though a form of Zhandugheen that is naïve in its practicality, taught by uppity types who would never actually deign to speak with the savages. This should set up for decent comedy from here on out, in that he keeps misusing it, and Kezhenie is constantly correcting him). Kezhenie leads them to Adrianna and the children, and the whole group is taken in. From that time on, Kezhenie and Evan are close. (Need to set up personalities between Evan and Kezhenie that make it obvious they’re going to be a great couple, though ESee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliKeali gets a glimpse of the future – an alien world (though I don’t know if she knows that the Jeslin are aliens yet, or that life on other worlds even exists) where the Jeslin and humans lSee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliSomeone mentions that the months are poorly named. “How short-sighted that they named the months after weather conditions wheSee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliArrival at the volcano in the snow covered mountains – their own personal Shangri-La. Huge volcanic lake deep in the depths of the crater, keeping it steamy warm down below, creating an environment of rich life, a small forest, an area of flat, open grassland near the shore, and a labyrinth of caves in the cliffs above. (NOTE THAT THE VOLCANIC WALLS CONTAIN LARGE DEPOSITS OSee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliHuman takes chivalaen child up on volcano side, argument ensues, pushes chivalaen child off cliff to their death. The act is witnessed by one of Prax’s close friends. Bully is taken, held by others. Prax is called up. Discussion ensues as to what to do. Bully shakes free and is being belligerent, saying nobody has a right to judge him, there’s no laws, who’s going to stop him? Bynun pushes him to his death right beside the other child. This is what creates a group need for a form of governmenSee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliSee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliPraxedis explores into the vast and massive caves of the dead volcano, awakens a dragon. Bynun kills it with one shot from the Jeslin craft. Find the dragon eggs. Praxedis saves them from being destroyed. Discovery of the dragon’s treasure trove. Evan finds ancient library of some sort, begins to examine bookSee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliSee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliA trip to the exploded dome – Evan gathers loads on info on how the Jeslin work by examining corpses, reviewing weapons and technology. They gather weapons and one remaining Jeslin craft. See, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliHatching the babies, Banth and Cross (named Cross after war injSee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliSee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliPraxedis is captured by the Jeslin and set to be tortured to death to make an example of him and the resistance, his right arm is exposed to the Jeslin atmosphere and the bacteria eat it down to the bone, but there is an uprising there in the dome by the slaves and a great slaughter of them (the slaves) begins to happen. Praxedis is broken free and runs for his life as the men who freed him die. Bleeding to death, he remembers the directions given to him (much earlier) to get to the bacterial production core and is able to overload one of the Jeslin weapons, set to blow the whole city to smithereens. Evan back at home is striving to teleport Praxedis out of the city, knocks the roiling pot – the marker for the teleport device – into the lake on accident (he’s terribly accident prone). Praxedis reports that the weapon is set to explode in 10 seconds, 9, 8, etc. A Jeslin coming down the hall to kill him, hears the message and sprints away, trying to get out, knowing what is about to happen. The Jeslin, who have intercepted the message, are trying to flee the city. The confusion is vast and city wide. The slaves see all the Jeslin (who have been communicated with via their city-wide com system) sprinting for the exits, and many slaves try to escape as well. Evan in a desperate attempt to complete the spell – a spell that was far more powerful than he should have been casting in the first place – finishes the invocation, pouring all of his life force into it. It works on a massive scale and teleports not just Prax, but a massive number of the city’s slaves with it. It is while pulling all of them up out of the water and saving as many as possible – since the lake monster attacks – that Lucius is found, the first human/vessel hySee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliPrax is on the verge of death, and though stabilized, is missing the flesh on his right arm. Kezhenie, the Zhandugheen healer who cared for Adrianna and her children, is caring for him. Evan has died. (See Evan notes below.) Kezhenie, though, under Evan’s guidance, has been reviewing books discovered in the Dragon’s treasure trove, and in one of them is a spell for binding two life forces together. Upon discovering Evan’s body, she immediately runs and does the stuff necessary to keep him in stasis while she prepares the spell. She speaks with Prax, who she expects to understand, and asks him to complete the spell after she prepares it, and bind her to Evan. This gets very emotional, but Prax refuses since he knows nothing of strucity and isn’t willing to risk killing her too if the spell goes wrong, and Kezhenie, cursing him, leaves. The thing is, the spell can only work with two lives that are already bound. WANT TO FINSee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliDiscussing the existence of Lucius, they are able to conclude that the Jeslin have found a way to keep from having to wear armored complyments. They conclude they need to be prepared for a far more difficult campaign, since they are no longer only required to punch a single tiny hole in the Jeslin armor to defeatEvan has learned how to manipulate gravity wells with little to no effort. He warns the enemy leader to surrender, or he will begin tearing his ships from the heavens. The leader scoffs and issues the command to begin the final destruction of Erets Dabar. Evan reaches out almost casually with his hand, appears to clutch the air in the direction of one of the hovering mother ships, and with a motion as if casting it to the ground, flips its gravity drive's orientation and the ship doesn't simply fSee, smell, noises, cold or hot, rain or dry, humidity, affectsInuries, illness or disease? Slowed down? Slower groups falliPraxedis brings the full force of his army against the last city-dome of the war. The battle is won. He stands with Lilly, looking up into the sky and says, “They came from somewhere, andNext series of books includes traveling back to earth where it turns out not all life died, and a whole new society has been born from the ashes. The Jeslin are attacking. (Keep in mind iJasna’s (no idea who this is yet) relatively well off father dies, and her mother, who is ill-equipped to deal with real life, winds up spending all the family fortune and winds up in the gutters with her daughter. She’s picked up by a local thug of some sort, gets hooked on numb weed (or whatever) and winds up being regularly abused by him. Jasna is beat too. Her mother hardly seems to care, and even joins in laughing at Jasna with her new hubby. Then Jasna is beat unconscious, wakes up with broken limbs. Her mother begins to care then. Mom’s addiction gets worse and worse. Things continue to escalate, the mother eventually wishing for death, Jasna trying as hard as she can to avoid getting beat, but never able to be good enough. Mom tries to kill herself, but fails. Jasna decides to run away, but is caught by the bad man, taken home and beat so that she’s bed-ridden for a week, and walks with a limp thereafter (forever?). She’s also chained to the bed. She overhears a conversation between her mother and the man, where he talks about selling Jasna to get enough money to be high for ‘the rest of our lives’. At first mom objects whiningly but hubby gets forceful until mother seems to be on board, and Jasna is so sick she wishes fThat night, she wakes up and discovers that she’s been unchained. Realizing this may be her only chance, she sneaks out and opens her door. Her mother is sitting in a chair facing her, and Jasna freezes, but her mother stands up (obviously high) and says, “Wanna see something wild?” Her hubby chuckles. “Oh yeah? How wild?” She begins covering herself in tar and whale fat. Her husband, also obviously as high as a kite, thinks this is hilarious. Jasna’s mother says, “It’s ok. You can go now.” The hubby, his mood suddenly shifting slightly says, “What?” Mom says, “Go on honey.” He says, “Go where?” Jasna opens the door as softly as she can, but it creaks. Hubby’s head whips around and he sees her and leaps to his feet. “You stupid worm. Where do you think you’re going?” Jasna’s mom reaches around her husband, clasping him close. He tries to shrug her off, saying, “Not now, woman!” but her mom says, “Run Jasna!” The man tries to shake her mother off, then turns and furiously throws her from him with a “Get off me! I’ll kill you both!” JasDiscovery of an ancient – very, very ancient – technologically advanced facility where the distant future of humanity on planet earth sent the facility to colonize and study. It was at this facility where the Zhandugheen and other branches of humanitPerson buys a bunch of animals to eat, but gets attached, can’t kill them, so they wind up with an entire herd of riding animaZhangheen city of Zhoazhan – vaulted city of towers, glows with bioluminescense, filled with lightning bugs of all colors, many strucidisiacal creatures of beauty, flying, floating, banners waving in the wind, maybe winged zhangheen? Mystical, magical place – rising out of a plain? On a mountain top? A stone plateau in the middle of a forest? Huge – many zhangheen strucity engineers live here, set in the center of a strucity well of gigantic proportions, peaceful, beautiful. Lights, lights and more lights, soft and pastelle. White, black, gold and silver themes with glowing lights all over. Flowing cloth, sheer curtA general in the Jeslin force had a near death experience some years ago, and through it had a revelation. Now directly committing treason, as the war develops, whenever he can, he undermines the war, assisting Praxedis while trying to remain unknown. At the end of the third novel, he comes out to support the building of the world with the Jeslin as slaves, becomes an adviser to Praxedis, and helps him lead the war against the Jeslin o2, a very crappy, mean-spirited, selfish person has been treated very well by 1 (a female), a very good and kind person. 2 is thinking about all that 1 has done for them, but 2 has recently done something horrible to 1 and is feeling guilt, but is torn between saying something to 1 or being quiet. Finally decides on being quiet, believing that they are incapable of change. 1 has come to the end of their patience with 2. 1 marches up to 2 and calls them by name, opening their mouth to begin railing against them. This should build anxiety in the reader on a large scale, hoping for 2 to finally become good and seeing that 1 is about to ruin it all. 3 is also a very crappy person, but experiences no guilt. Since 1 is so easily walked on, 3 has come to vent their frustration on 1 and begins attacking 1 (physically? emotionally?) right in front of 2. 2 proceeds to defend 1 voraciously, presenting example after example of when 2 was good to them when they had every right to take vengeance. The aftermath is that 1 never yells at 2 and they become best friends – maybe husband and wife? Does Bynun have a love interesGolth makes overt gestures of love toward Kaeli. Sees others who gather flowers for loved ones, so he brings a bouquet of saplings. When this fails, brings a small tree. Sees others singing for loved ones, sings horribly for Kaeli, scaring her horriThe ghosts of Golth and Kaeli save their friends in a fight in During one of the Jeslin fights, Bynun leaps on one of their craft and flies off, leaving the rest of the party to think he’s abandoned them, but comes back (having figured out how to fly the thing on the fly – ha ha) and kills the remaining Jeslin. CAn adult human who comes to the camp after Prax is king tries to overthrow him. This human comes to the camp before Prax is captured, and has been undermining his rule for some time before Prax gets taken. This man is mean-spirited and power hungry, and Evan sees what is going on. Once it has been discovered that Prax has been taken captive, the man gives proof to the sociThis would be an ideal place (immediately during or after the attempted overthrow of Prax) for Dray who didn’t die at the battle, to show up and save Prax. Dray doesn’t die at the last battlefront between the humans and the Sandugan. After he kills Hal all of those in the tent scatter (because of the attack of the Jeslin? Because they can hear the Sandugan almost upon themDiscovery of mountain kingdom of people that have no idea the Jeslin have invaded, hadn’t heard of the war, know nothing of whEvan decks out the dragons in armor, weapons. Ridden into battle by Prax and someone else – other major character. Bynun gets attached to Cross, or Evan? Which is more cool, the Ferret-mAeronish hides something in hollow bones, is strip searched, buBeautiful girl finds that life is useless being beautiful and desired by everyone. Nearly kills herself, finds ugly girl who is happy, learns from her, and becomes ugly herself in order toBullies that pick on Prax, he handles them with awesome grace, gets his ass kicked anyway, but shows them mercy when he has thHas a love interest with Zhenik, but discards it in order to save Adrianna and her children. Gezhma eventually sacrifices himself to save Adrianna and her kids during the war. Zhenik sacrifices himself for to save her and the children escaping from tTIMEFALL – When Bynun suffers a traumatic event, it triggers what he calls ‘timefall’. The space in front of him boils and twists violently and then bubbles open, showing him himself in the past. (Generally right before the event began?) The combination of his trauma in the present with the awareness that the trauma had not yet occurred in the past naturally causes his soul and mind to be drawn out of the present and back to before the event began. That is, if he doesn’t willfully refuse to go, he finds himself back before the trauma happened – a power driven by ‘Strength of Desire’ (see ‘Strucity’). He can, however, overcome the timefall by tapping into ‘Strength of Will’, recognizing that the present trauma is worth the investment, overcomBynun, a vibrant 8 year old boy, filled with life and love for the world is coming home from the woods where he’s been playing. His mother and father, sweet, care-free people, allow him to do whatever he wants to, never having had anything really horrible happen to them in all their lives. Bynun comes bounding back, excited to show them something beautiful he found or made, sees the smoke of the house on fire, and finds them murdered, his father clubbed to death in front of the house, his mother with two knives pinning her hands to a tree and a wound in her side that spilled her guts out next to her. She’s covered in ants. He thinks she’s dead, but she’s not, and when he calls out to her, (MAMA!!) she screams. He isn’t strong enough to get both knives out of her hands, just one, (they were kicked into the tree) and the ants are eating her alive. Her arm is so badly broken she can’t use it, even though it’s no longer pinned to the tree. She begs him to kill her as he’s trying to swipe all the ants off. Bynun can’t do it and runs to town to get help, mama calling after him please not to go. Every time she almost passes out, her legs wobble and the pain of her weight dragging at the blade still in the tree but hears wolves coming. Make this scene freaky as it gets – her shouting at them as they come up on her, trying to kick at them, but she’s lost feeling in her legs and her kicking is weak. Is eaten by the wolves. Bynun gets back with help, but the wolves have already killed her and half-eaten her. The house is ruined, nothing salvageable. Literally the only thing he has left is the knife the man used to pin his mother’s hand to the tree. It becomes his symbol – has a unique marking on the hilt of it that he adopts as his own. (He doesn’t know that it’s one of a set that goes with a long sword, a gift to Kyle from some prince or something. Only one smith in the world used the symbol – eventually part of the plot figuring out that Kyle is the murderer. Kyle, converted from wickedness to righteousness, covers the symbol on his sword with a box or something, a sign of his sin being covered by the forgiveness of the Creator. This is eventually uncoveredBynun is taken in by an orphanage which is run by a woman who is sweet, but impotent and dim-witted. He is taken under the wing of a street gang leader, taught how to steal and used and abused. Becomes a wicked thug, self-seeking, brutal, vengeful anThe briggands that killed Bynun’s parents are indeed found through the insignia on the knife. But they are found just before either the Jeslin descend or before the men who find them are wiped out in some conflict. Perhaps Norzant or Eckom are a member of the group that finds them, are is the one who is going to go back and let Bynun know that they’ve been defeated, but areKyle is robbed by Bynun, but catches him in the act. Takes him to the sheriff to have him arrested, but as the sheriff is searching him for weapons, Kyle sees the hilt and blade of the knife that used to belong to him. Runs to the side to speak with someone about Bynun’s history, learns that he is the child of the family Kyle killed, and Kyle thanks God for giving him a chance to make some repayment. Drops charges on the agreement that Bynun must go with him. That night Bynun sneaks out, is followed by Kyle to see where he’s going – he’s going to kill the leader of his gang. Bynun messes up badly, is cornered and they’re going to kill him, but Kyle shows up saves him, killing manBynun travels with Kyle after that, who watches over him as his guardian (Bynun has a tendency to make people really mad – Kyle, ex-pirate and expert swordsman, keeps them from hurting him.) Bynun scathingly mistreats him, but in return always receiveBynun is Antuvliaen and sees his own future, making him miraculNote just before this that it is mentioned or remembered that the sharing of the future is a reality, and that some events cannot be changed – that a person is going to respond in one way or another no matter if they know what is coming or not. In Antuvliaen prophecy, the death of Kyle at the hands of Bynun was foretold – that Bynun discovered something (the Antuvliaen don’t know what that thing is – saw a vision of Bynun painting on the wall in Kyle’s blood ‘I know what you did’) and killed Kyle for it, bringing a disastrous end to the entire unity of the infant kingdom because Kyle was the religious tie? foresees that Bynun finds out that Kyle took part in the murder of his parents, warns Kyle that it’s coming. Kyle is about to go to Bynun and tell him who he is. He’s been talking with Prax, and Prax has said that if it were him, he’d want to know, but Bynun finds out on his own before Kyle can tell him. Bynun tortures Kyle to death and then as he jams the knife into his own throat (lodging it in his spinal cord?) his eyes open wide as he sees space bubbling open in front of him. He can see himself, startled out of his mind, staring back at himself where blood is pouring out of his throat, Kyle disemboweled behind him. His other self screams and begins scooting backward as the vision of his own future is poured from dying future self to living present self, and then he snaps out of the vision screaming, and it hasn’t happened yet. There is a some sort of regular thing that happens that other people can see when Bynun begins seeing visions Bynun sees a young Zhandugheen child, around 6 yrs old, reunited with his mother, and it is so touching to him because of what happened to him, that from that day forward he watches over them secretly. After this event, Kaylie’s sister is captured, Golth goes to save her, and they die together. After that event, the wandering ghosts of Kaylie’s sister and Golth are run across by the group, and Bynun sees them, witnesses their woe. After this, the mother is captured by the aliens. Bynun cannot bear it, and takes off after them in the same manner that Golth did. Though he time rewinds for him, he finds himself forced to either save the child or the mother. Maybe he saves the mother first, but sees how hurt she is by the death of her child, tells her he can go back and save the child though she will die horribly and without any hope that the child survives, and she tells him that, of course she would prefer that a thousand times over – suffering death in hopelessness to save her baby. He is unable to save the mother, though he himself is able to escape by the skin of his teeth. He is transformed then, becoming a champion for saving everyone and destroying the aliens, he bends his entire will toward it under the careful guidance of Kyle. Still, he indulges his visions as an opportunity to fill hisBynun eventually marries Kaeli, though they are opposites of the most intense degree. Kaeli, being an Antuvliaen, has a much smaller scale of precognitive power than Bynun does, but her ability to tie into other people surpasses his, and is, in fact, more powerful than anyone who has been around for a long, long time. This combines with here presence at the volcano, one of only 8 super power focals on the planet, allows her to tie into people with remarkable ease – often times accidentally and against her will. (It is this power that turns her into a decent human being eventually.) Bynun has blocked his worst memory, the time in his life when his family was killed, but Kaelie is convinced by Evan that, if Bynun can recall the event, he can face it, and overcome the worst of his endless pain. Bynun being Antuvliaen himself (the only male in history known to have the prophetic powers of Antuvliaen seers) is able to force her from his mind, is able to set up a mental barrier that she cannot get through. Kaeli has always been head-strong, stubborn, and she tries constantly against his will, to get into his head and see what he refuses to see – what he can no longer see. She blackmails Evan (not sure how) into helping her break through Bynun’s mental block (turns out it’s easy for Evan to bring it down) and there she sees what happened to him. At this same time, Kyle is getting ready to admit to Bynun what he did. When Evan pulls down Bynun’s wall, it pulls it down not just for Kaeli, but for Bynun too, and Bynun is suddenly forced to relive his worst moment. Kyle has come to speak with him, finds him in a deep, trembling trance, and begins shaking him, trying to bring him up out of it. Kaeli finishes her viewing and breaks free from Bynun, who opens his eyes to stare into the face of his worst enemy. Kyle is startled by a look of bestial fury he has never seen on a human face, and steps back, suddenly unsure of himself. Bynun proceeds to viciously kill Kyle. As this is happening, Kaeli is still tapped into her husband (she always is) and knows what is happening, and screams to Evan they must hurry. As they come into the room, Bynun has turned, his fury now locked upon them. “You did this to me!” He charges Evan, who doesn’t stand a chance. Kaeli tries to pull him off, but Bynun turns, his teeth gritted, and slits her throat. Down she goes, gurgling, Bynun standing over her, knives poised in hand, the bodies of his three most cherished friends in front of him. Dragging Kyle from the room, he moves to a precipice and throws his body into the volcanic lake. Then he does the same with Evan. Then he goes back, tears now running down his face, and prepares to do the same with Kaeli, but the rage is beginning to subside, and the realization of what he’s done is beginning to seep in – pictures of their love forcing their way through. He gets her to the edge, and then breaks down weeping, pulling her close as she’s beginning to go cold and collapses to his knees. Now images of Kyle’s kindness prance through his mind, Evan’s good intentions and friendship, and the love he has for his wife. Stop the scene here. Praxedis comes in, sees the blood everywhere, and follows the gruesome trail to where Bynun is, his dead wife in his lap, sitting on the brink of the cliff that leads to the volcanic water below. He asks what happened and runs forward. He grabs Bynun, shaking him, calling him to come out of his seeming trance. Bynun looks up at him and asks, “Why won’t this end? Why isn’t this just a vision of what is to come? Why can’t I break free from this?” Prax asks again what happened, and Bynun reassures him, “None of this is real. It’s all going to be ok. I’ll snap out of it any time now. None of it is real.” Praxedis begins freaking out, and Bynun pops to his feet. “NONE OF THIS IS REAL! STOP IT!” Praxedis asks him, “What have you done? What did you do?” Bynun, infuriated again, his inner beast utterly in command of him, grabs Prax. “This,” he says, and then throws Prax screaming from the ledge into the abyss below. The sound of other footsteps are coming now, shouts and around the corner comes several guards. Bynun faces them, blades in hand, and suddenly gets a flash of how easily he carves through them – and to the loneliness on the other side of them. With the flash comes the realization that all this is real, there is no turning back. It must have been that his emotion was so strong it bypassed his normal vision of the future, where he was able to take out his aggression with no consequences. Tears streaming down his face, he steps back to the edge. The guards move in, but they never have to touch him. He leaps backward off the cliff in an expert backdive, handsAt some point, Bynun winds up in Antuvliaen combat with a girl who is his enemy. Time-falling is exhausting, because while the body is rewound to just before the trauma, the mind and soul are still experiencing a single timeline. It also comes with gross disorientation and confusion because the soul is literally traveling the timeline and having to unravel out of the future body and re-tie into the past body, and it takes a moment to reorient itself to the body’s awareness and body-to-soul information input. While the soul is reorienting itself, there is musle control loss, blindness (while the mind and soul re-access the brain), sickness akin to sever vertigo and the like. Bynun is more practiced at it, because though it hurts him to time-fall, he LOVES seeing what he considers justice being done more than he hates the pain and disorientation, and so he’s become skilled at overcoming the disorientation and he’s built a tolerance for the sickness. The Antuvliaen girl, on the other hand, has only ever time-fallen a few times, and works hard to avoid it because it can be more traumatic to her than the actual eventThis girl is a well-trained Antuvliaen, and considered the most powerful ever born by her peers (the queen?). She is the only one ever (or so they think) who, every time she experiences trauma, finds herself rewound to just before the traumatic event. Does she have willful access to the past and future? Is she able to force the connection open? Is she able to see through Bynun and this girl wind up at odds and a fight ensues. She causes him trauma, and he time-falls, causing Bynun to experience the disorientation that comes with the fall (though she doesn’t know time has rewound). In response, once time has rewound, he causes her trauma before she can cause him trauma, and she time-falls causing the girl to experience the disorientation that comes with the rewind (though Bynun doesn’t know time has rewound). Back and forth a few times until the girl realizes that she’s up against another Antuvliaen…a BOY…who is being wielded by the same power she is. She exclaims, “You have it too!” He replies, “I have what?” “You’re an Antuvliaen?” “I’m a what?” “Time falls back for you, and you get to replay your actions.” Bynun’s eyes bug out. “How…oh my goodness. You too? No.There is a second battle, the girl hell bent on exhausting him by rewinding and rewinding and rewinding until he can stand it no more because she knows that timefalling hurts her, and she thinks she’s got more tolerance for it that he does. Bynun can see, however, that she is getting exhausted, and realizes that, if he continues this battle to its end, she will be broken (fall into a coma actually), he thinks she might die, though he also realizes that he is by far the superior timefaller. He opts out of the battle, turning the other cheek and suffering the tBynun eventually finds himself in a traumatic situation where he must choose between saving only 1 of 2 of his beloved friends – in this way. He finds himself suddenly needed in two places at once. He rushes off to help the friend that is the most likely to fail, and does, indeed, save them from nearly certain doom. Then he learns of the death of his friend, which is so deeply sorrowful that he timefalls, and this time runs off to help them instead, hoping that perhaps the first person he’d helped will survive – only they don’t, and he realizes then that he cannot save them both. He must choose which of them lives, and which of them dies. (Maybe he speaks with them in sorrow and tears, telling first one then, after another timefall, the other, that he can only save one of them – that one of them is going to die, and discovers that both of them are heroes, volunteering to die to save the other, making Bynun’s love for them all that much greater, because each of them are in a situation that is terrifying, and their death will be horrible, and they know it. In fact, the second person he tells he is also able to tell them that the other person, who is dying at that very moment, now no longer aware that they are dying as a hero who chose to die this way to save the second person, chose to die in order to save this person – who is now in anguish and does all in their power to convince Bynun to let them die the horrible death Bynun is born from above, accessing the highest dimension – that of love. “Love is the highest dimension.” Once he has become in-tune with the hardship of others, he is able to access their trauma, and timefall…for them? With them? Is he, with access to the power of the highest dimension, physically able to timefall to where they were before their trauma and save them? Perhaps drawn them physically out of where they were and to where he was? Not sure how this works, only that it is SPECTACULARBynun is the son of a 1st generation ‘lost gift’ movther and second generation ‘lost gift’ father (a man born who’s grandmother had weak Antuvliaen powers.) Turns out boys DO get the power, only rarely, but when they get it, its trigger must be truly powerful – but the result is the gift of timefall, not just secAntuvliaen are all female, except for the first (Anarcimin Origins)? The first Antuvliaen was gifted power by God during the end of the world. God gave him the gift to escape the mobs that knew the ship we was about to leave on was the only hope of life left on earth. They wind up destroying the ship, but God gives the timefall to the man, permitting him to rewind and try again, and again, until he is able to get the entire crew throuHe has a child, a girl. She has a child, a girl. She has children, all girls. From that time on, all Antuvliaen born are girls…until the blood line thins enough that the power dwindels and suddenly boys and girls are both born. (The power is itself a purely scientifically based power via accessing other dimensions based on just how much of the universe any place is in touTaken captive by the Zhandugheen after escaping the flaming wreck of their home. Kezhenie saves Adrianna from being killed by a fellow Zhandugheen by arguing that they could be a good bargaining chip. Adrianna and her children are captured, taken into bondage. Kept in a Zhandugheen camp, at first locked in a tent. Kezhenie cares for Adrianna’s horrible wounds and scars, has her (Adrianna’s) eldest daughter help as b0oth a caretaker and a babysitter. Adrianna is in sore shape, scarred head toKezhenie talks her matriarch into letting Adrianna and her kids outside from time to time, under watch, arguing that they have nowhere to run to, and that she certainly isn’t going to leave without her children if she was willing to usher them all out before she came, causing the terrible burns in the first place. Matriarch agrees only by keeping one child aside and under threat of death if anyone of them tries to escape – and the Matriarch has the child. Makes it clear to Adrianna by holding a knife to the girl’s throat, finger gestures that she and her children must stay. Adrianna’s oldest begins talking with KezhenieKezhenie spends a lot of time with them. She is shunned by the other Zhandugheen as a human lover, and she argues with them. Some want to hang them by their own intestines in the same way the humans did, but Kezhenie argues against it saying that is to become the enemy, and that they must rise above. Destroying Heaton was necessary to send a message, killing these innocents would be vengeance only and that would be treasonous to loveAdrianna’s oldest helps make things for the faction, and soon is accepted as a sort of pet/slave. During this time her communication skills have broadened, and during a conversation with Kezhenie, she tells her why the humans killed the first Zhandugheen faction. Kezhenie is very concerned, reports the murder to her matriarch who then goes to the patriarch with the news. The patriarch immediately investigates, calling the boy who killed Adrianna’s husband. He grills him in front of the whole camp, and it doesn’t take long for him to break down and admit the murder, telling how he was trying to get his status as man (which he did) but that he couldn’t for the life of him find a wild animal, and being unwilling to disappoint his father, he went into Heaton to get a pig, and got caught. Patriarch asks if he knows he started a war. Child nods, weeping, beating his thighs, screaming in his tortured soul – yes, he knows. He is convicted of high treason and sentenced to death, but since he is not of age, his title of man being stripped from him, his father is held responsible for the crime. Commanded to go to the humans and tell them the truth, offering a peace treaty, the boy is bound, tied to 5 captured cows that had been taken from the humans during the fighting, and his father leads him to the human camp. When they are spotted, the father is immediately fired upon by the Kaerick. The boy watches as his father dies for crimes he didn’t commit. Quickly a couple soldiers are sent out to retrieve the animals and, seeing that they carry the ZhanHal calls for an interpreter, and a mage comes who speaks limited Zhandugheen . The boy tells the mage why he has come, bound, to the human camp. At first, Hal decides to slit the child’s throat, but then decides to gut him and hang him by his intestines. As his soldiers are dragging him to the middle of the camp, he realizes that he is not rationally capable of dealing with the child and stops them, commanding that he be taken as a prisoner of war and sent to the king to be dealt with accordinglMya has a unique stucical gift, one that isn’t explored in the conlegium’s because of their dedicated bent toward science. Although it’s not unheard of for strucity to be formed using song, because it’s an art form rather than a science, it’s scoffed at as a real thing amongst the educated (except perhaps as a manner of focus – but even then those stuff shirts believe chanting can perform focus, and not the joy of song). Mya, however, is very good at it, though she’s unaware of her gift. She’s always enjoyed singing and music, and sings most everywhere she goes, and as a result, to her, it’s just always been part of her life – both the song and its accompanying strucity. Whilst in captivity with the Sandugan, she loses her singing altogether, but eventually she begins singing again. Kezhenie sees it andGot this documented up through the beginning of August, but havThe jist is this – Mya can sing strucity fluidly, and what she’s untying is the potential power of her anger and sorrow. She doesn’t have to feel it, only have the memory and the ability to feel it for it to be real enough (because her subconscious has it logged, the memory, the feeling, the logic) to provide her an energy source to untie. For those who tie into the song with her (a sort of strucotenancy where all parties share in the experience, not so much reaching into each other, but each of them reaching out to one another and connecting in the ‘space between’) their potential emotional energy, and the potential physical stress that comes with it provide a greater energy source, and so the strucity form that can be worked becomes larger and larger the more join with her. Tying into the song consists of just listening, but is much stronger and more amplified if they sing along. Mya doesn’t realize just how powerful this gift is for a long time. Perhaps regrets deeply the death of Ooluōzh amongst others once she realizes she could probably have sung peace to the attackers. (Those who are utterly dedicated to their rage are untouchabel by this, since it is a mutual acceptance of one another, and tying into the song is reliant on theThis would be awesome to have the Jeslin general run across her while she’s singing shortly after his near death experience, and that’s why he works so hard to protect the humans thereafter. Perhaps even Mya doesn’t see him there, and so, when writing that scene, don’t show the Jeslin, only mention it much later in the series when they’re finally talking with the general. AThis will be used to some great benefit, some vast, benevolent Maybe have someone who is the opposite? A great enemy who singBecause he teleported his mother as a child, the damage done to himself lasts him most of his childhood. It is only really just as he’s turning ten-twelve that he begins to regain the depth of power he had as a toddler. As a result, though he’s loved, his skills are pathetic (because, though he is a natural engineer, he’s a poor mathemetician and not mechanically inclined). He is still able to do, from time to time, spectacular things, enough to keep everyone hopeful, but his bumbles far exceed his successes, and so everybody wonders why Arlot is telling him in the vision that the remnant of the world might be in his haWhen Evan was three years old, he began to show a knack for strucity, though his mother, Aerlynne, always said calling it a knack was akin to calling “a whoppin’ tree but a wee sapling.” That day was the first day the boy was to go into town with his father alone. There had been a bit of a dispute regarding this separation of child and mother, but his father, Haergoff, had put his foot down. “Now darling, thou knowest he can’t hang upon thine apron strings forever. He comes with me today. We’ll be fine.” And so the wagon was loaded with salted ham and bags of dry corn, Evan was fed, dressed and bundled against the laNow, wee Evan was a sharp lad, and though the conversaton regarding the separation from his mother had happened in private, the behavioral queues given by his mama and papa were inescapable. Papa’s face was straight. That meant there had been an argument and papa had won through insistence and not coersion. Mama, who was always kind and loving, was more kind and loving than ever before, encouraging him, eyes moist, near tears, holding him close…something was terribly wrong. He felt his anxiety bPapa took Evan from mama – odd. A tear spilled from Aerlynne’s eye – more odd. Papa turned and began to walk away…and mama waved. Mama waved? She wasn’t coming? Fear shot through the boy with an electric tingle. He turned and saw that they were headed toward the wagon. He turned back again and saw mama, waving with one hand while the other clutched her apron with a brave look on her face, and Evan began to scream. Tears flowed down his chubby cheeks, both hands reached for his mother, and he cried out for her with all the energy a child who feels the woHaergoff held tight and never looked back. It had to be done. The boy was, after all, a boy, and needed to begin to learn how to survive. If he was going to be a contributing member of the family, it was never to early to begin learning. It was late, in fact. This parting should have taken place a year ago, but with a wife so very soft-hearted and kind, it had been impossible to try and have this conversation a year ago. For goodness sake, it was well nigh impossible now. With resolution he walked to the wagon, squirming child and all, mounted up with some difficulty, took the reins in one hand while holding the chiThe second Evan couldn’t see his mother anymore, the world as the three of them knew it changed forever. One moment they were riding into the woods just father and son, the next moment AerThe shock of it all nearly caused that trip to end there, and badly. Evan was instantly unconscious and limp as a rag doll. Aerlynne was completely disoriented and violently sick to her stomach, and so utterly startled that she could do little but shout and burble as though she’d just been sucked out of existence in one place only to reappear in another without any warning. Haergoff roared with startlment, and then moved with lightning reflexes to catch his son who had tumbled off his mother’s lap, onto the floor board, and was within an inch of falling beneath the wagon and its iron rimmed wheels, saving him from trageMomentarily blind, her mind stunned and reeling, it took Aerlynne several seconds to get her thoughts to act cohesivley again, and even then, the sense of dream around her was so strong she had a very difficult time adjusting to the idea that this was reality and not simply her having a shocking nightmare. When her husband, now clutching little Evan to his chest, reached for her, she slapped his hand away with another shout, pupils tinyThen there was some shouting on both of their parts as Haergoff tried to figure out what had just happened and Aerlynne tried to grasp reality once again, and some vomiting on her part as the contents of her stomach spontaneously sprayed from her mouth inches from her husband’s face, and some dodging on his part, but soon enough the wagon had been brought to an abrupt halt and both of them were frantically bent over their unconscious sonEvan wasn’t coming out of it, and by that evening, their destination had changed. Rather than riding from where they lived on the outskirts of Murn to the market at Senthrol, which was a two day journey, they rode straight on through to Tylenthael, which was a six day journey. In Tylenthael there were remediacs and fisiciens, maybe even a strucitor, someone, anyone who might explain to them what had happened to their son and how it migAs it turns out, they were in luck. At the local hospitium there was a visiting lecturer to the fisiciens, a strucitor from tHaergoff and Aerlynne were farmers, not used to the atmosphere of a bustling town and often close pressed crowds, and it was with a bit of fear that they were summoned into the lecture hallThe queen is present during a meeting with the mages council and the king, and she rails against their war plans, quoting prophecies written by the ancient clairvoyants about the coming of the dragons. The truth is that the two leading mages on the council both know of the prophecies, know that the time is upon them, The wicked mage, who has been pilfering the war funds and setting them aside, advises the king that they need every coinThe queen has a desperate phobia of rats. She has seen, whether a vision or a nightmare she isn’t sure, that she is turned into a half-rat and burned at the stake. Rats are considered vile bearers of death. Long ago it was relatively popular for strucity engineers to mix themselves with other animals, doubling their vigor without detracting from their mental prowess. However, it was dubbed abominable (because the man that overthrows Benadam is prejudiced against all forms of mixed species, and the reason Benadam outlawed it is because mixing species winds up with abberations 99% of the time) and a law was made that all abominations/aberrations would be burned at the stake. Needless to say, the queen is terrified by her vision/nightmare, but doesn’t want to tell anyone for fear of having a stigma since it is known that she is descended from the Antuvliaen and if sheYoung Kaeli, also an Antuvliaen descendent (related to the queen), has seen a wicked mage mixing a potion to turn the queen into a half-rat, and has seen the queen burned at the stake. (In the vision, she is creeping along a rooftop and finds herself listening to Azoth talking to himself with glee about how he’s going to change the queen into a rat. She is frozen with fear, knowing that if she is spotted, she’s dead. The vision switches to him sucking the life out of Arlot who knows nothing is going on while she watches, frozen in fear, and then switches to Arlot being accused of the crime and sentenced to death while Kaeli is overwhelmed with guilt, but stays silent.) She doesn’t know she’s Antuvliaen though – doesn’t know it’s a true vision. Kaeli is a rotten little turd of a girl, spoiled and rebellious. She is constantly fleeing from her nanny, and one night flees up and onto the roof tops. As she is creeping along them, she feels an intense sense of energy building, as though she were about to walk into a picture and suddenly realizes she is living her dream. There is Azoth, talking gleefully about turning the queen into a rat. “…merging you with a rat, my queen, since rats are the most repulsive thing in the world to you, not to mention being a symbol (in Kaeric society) of filth. ‘Tis the most offensive thing a man can be called! Long has the law of the land been in place, stating that all aberrations be destroyed, and so you will first suffer the humiliation of being the creature you despise so much, then suffer death at the hands of your beloved king for being an aberration, while Arlot (his rival on the mages council, the queens adviser) will be executed for high treason, leaving ME as the most powerful mage in the kingdom of Kyaur!” She waits terrified, for him to leave, and then sneaks back to her nanny where she cries, but says nothing about what she overheard, terrified he might do the same to her. That night there’s a party of some sort, a ball, and Kaeli must attend. While she’s at the party, Azoth makes a brief appearance. (He’s there to steal a piece of Arlot’s something-or-other that he can use to steal Arlot’s life signature when he makes the potion. Arlot is there to entertain the children.) Azoth leaves his strucity engine behind while he quickly makes his move to steal from Arlot. Kaeli sees him stealing (which takes a bit because of the nature of signature theft. The side-effect, however, of stealing another mages strucity signature is that it comes at great physical cost – the life force spent creating such a spell can be deadly – but the Azoth is confident in his power.) and frets, remembering that her nanny said one day would come where she could do the right thing when it mattered, but she wouldn’t because she was such a bad little girl. Kaeli fiddles with the strucity engine quickly, and then goes – in terror – to sit with the other children. Azoth comes back, filled with utter glee, grabs his strucity engine and returns to his room. He has to finish the potion tonight or he will miss his one chance at this. The strucity engine runs out, Azoth quickly taps into himself to create the potion and succeeds, but is exhausted – more exhausted than he has ever been in his life. He must though, get the potion in the queen tonight or he misses his window of opportunity. While in the queen’s quarters, his foolish overextension brings a heart attack upon him, and he dies quietly in her bedroom with the potion still claspeThe righteous mage – Arlot – that sides with the queen has Evan as his apprentice. This is how Evan acquires the potion in thArlot speaks with Evan about the nature of magic, about how it After Evan becomes ferret-man, he has a bit of a dual personaliHas a propensity thereafter to steal shiny things and hide themQueen Loara saw one future where Evan was being given a book. Arlot using strucotenancy goes into her mind in order to get the personality print off the boy in the auspication so that he can go and find him early on. After finding Evan, he then seeks for the book, but there is none in his library that meets the description – a book bound in barley sack cloth (or whatever you call that stuff). Somewhere along the way some treasured strucity book? Or whatever you’d like it to be, is damaged horribly, and Evan? Damaged it? Decides to fix it, but he’s really young, so he wraps it in rouch sack cloth? (In the past, Arlot loved the child so much that he couldn’t bear to re-wrap the book, but this time around, since Arlot is aware of the book and its wrapping, when he sees that Evan has wrapped it, and realizes this is the book that he was giving the boy, the most valuable book – a surprise even to him that this book is so valuable, since he didn’t know it’s value, but once he realizes what booThis must go in book – Evan’s epilogue is dependent on it, and has already been written. (See “Evan’s introduction to strucitThe queen sees through her Antuvliaen sight Evan – need to set this up so the queen can send Arlot to find Evan, and that’s why he’s at Tylenthael at the time of Evan’s first strucity form Praxedis is captured by the Jeslin, taken back to a major center of theirs and is to be tortured to death in front of the other captives turned slaves. Evan is trying to get him back, working on a strucity form powerful enough to teleport Prax back to Erets Davar. It works, but his focus is so powerful (aided by the strucity well) that he brings not only Prax but all the captives that have begun an uprising and are being slaughtered. The result is that he is killed, unties his essence, dies. Kezhenie, Evan's love, finds him there and remembers the potion taken from the queen so long ago. She runs and grabs it, brings it back to where Evan is lying, and mixes him with his pet ferret while at the same time working to wound share. This normally goes horrifically wrong, (part of why they're known as abominations), but Kezhenie's natural gift for wound and pain sharing make her a perfect conduit for the mixing of the races. What happens instead is that, due to using the potion, she is mixed with them at the same time. Evan's appelative is strong as is Kezhenie's, much stronger than the ferrets, so they both retain their bodies and the ferret is physically utterly tied into them (making it appear as if it disappears, when in fact it is mixed at the cellular and atomic level with them). As Kezhenie reaches into Evan, while she's sharing, his intuitiveness for being in touch with the way the world works is shared by her, though she may be utterly unaware of it. She's actually trying to tie into him and willfully risking sacrificing her own life to save him, which causes her focus to be so utterly complete that she's unaware that the potion, which is designed to mix appelatives, is mixing with her as well. Evan comes back, but now as a permanent mixture of him and his ferret, diminuative in stIt goes like this. Azoth, as the master of the Preceptory, is well practiced at fiddling with appelatives, as are his students under him. It is why he's so gifted at mixing the potion. However, the reality is, he's never mixed a potion that actually worked properly before, always creating monstrosities. (He's a very gifted strucitor – it's why he's visir to the king.) He doesn't care if the queen is turned into a monstrosity though – and especially with the ability to steal Arlot's appelative, something Arlot doesn't even know is possible, which is why he's so utterly horrified when the potion is found, because it's proof positive that he is, in fact, guilty of having made the potion. Preach then, that the potion is clearly going to make an abberation. (Kezhenie, however, feels that she can guide the process. When mixing the ferret and Evan, however, she doesn't have her talisman with her, and so is actively working to untie herself. This is why she utterly discards herself. However, Erets Dabar is a heart of strucity, and since the strucity form she's working is far less consumptive than what Evan has just done, she's completely not untied, though she believes she'll Azoth is descended from the Master of the Preceptory, and is raised with hatred for the conlegium and a deep desire to see it utterly destroyed. He is the king's visir, and as such, is aware of all the things the queen warns the king about. He's also an advanced and gifted student of strucity, and so is accutely aware of the antuvliaen prophecies about the end of the world, and that there is only one safe place that the descendents of the queen will survive, and that this place is a vast underground kingdom, so when he hears about how the queen has seen Arlot in her vision speaking with a boy who is there at the end, andSir Luke Ancient ruins of Civitas Dolan. Ancient undead monster will kill anyone that it can reach. Sir Luke’s family slain by it. Pursued by the Jeslin, losing members, the Jeslin are suddenly attacked from behind by the monster. As the Jeslin turn to face their new threat, the party runs into the ruins. Meet sir Luke who helps them delve into ancient underground tunnels – a place where the monster, which is too big, can’t reach them. Flee through the tunnels out the other side, only to meet the monster there. Sir Luke sacrifices himself to save them. They flee, the monster roars after them, but Sir Luke is up again and the fight happens again. Again he is slain. Again he rises to fight the creature. Evan gains an understanding of whABSOLUTELY MUST READ OVER NOTES IN HOKA HECKI BEFORE COMMITTINGKing Thusbaen ArlotKyle Adrianna Prax Process Group PGID: 231064 --- ## Canonical spine (M_L) **PRIMUS:** Willful avoidance of harm of self and others equally. **SECUNDUS:** Willful seeking of healing of self and others equally. **TERTIUM:** Willful pursuit of benefit of self and others equally. Love is the sole logic that produces mutual prosperity without a zero-sum trade. - Full paper: `MASTER DOCS/PAPER/Another_Paper_Draft_v1.md` - OSF preregistration: https://osf.io/qa54c - Corpus phase: extract v0.1 (mined from local Braid archive)