TKO Creations

Due to the shaky nature of my connection today, I’m playing it safe and giving all ten of you an early update.  Here is Chapter Twenty-Seven.

In other news, I’ve gotten some feedback as to how to proceed, and it looks like the “I want it all!” crowd has it.  Within the next few days, I should start posting the remainder of the Second Gate for all you impatient type peoples!

Oh, I kid.  I’m glad you all like it so much you all want the rest right away.  I’m glad to oblige.

So, here’s Chapter Twenty-Six.

I think I failed all my readers again.  Julianne and Justin don’t always see eye to eye.  In fact, they rarely do.  Yet, somehow, they don’t have a horrible, failing marriage that is destined to end in drama and a broken family.  How can I do such silly things?

Meanwhile, I promise Timothy isn’t trying to be a catastrophic jackass.  It just comes naturally.  He actually thinks he’s doing what’s best.  Maybe he is; but that doesn’t mean anyone else has to like it… even himself.

So, uh… oops.  Timothy accidentally Rumil’s respect.  Way to break it, hero.

Find out how Timothy managed to step in it, just what the hell was so damned scary to the Erani sects that they chopped out almost a half of a prophet’s words, how Dewin can manage to become even more sanctimoniously obnoxious, and more in Chapter Twenty-Five.

Man, that sounded like a really bad TVtropes chop up made by a Hollywood preview writer.  God, I hope that’s not my future.

Hollywood writers get boned hard.

Hey!  It’s the titular object at long last!

Dun dun DUNH!

Read more about it, as well as something about Rumil (but what exactly,  I wonder), as well as a different side to Timothy that he rarely ever shows in Chapter Twenty-Four.  Could the amore be… reciprocated?  They can do that in fiction?

Wait, could I be doing it all wrong?  Damn it, I need to start adding all sorts of throwaway characters to get in the middle of this budding relationship!  This sort of development between two characters can’t be allowed to happen.  Poorly injected and contrived drama is the way these sort of things have to go!

I got it!  Justin discovers he is actually Julianne’s brother!  He can’t possibly remain married to… wait no… that actually hasn’t stopped Erani noble families in the past.

What, did you think Timothy was joking that arranged marriages have been closer than third cousins?

I guess you’re all just gonna have to put up with a realistic relationship blooming between two people.  Not that there won’t be issues… but it’s actually going to, ya know, make sense and feel like something completely unlike Days of our Lives.

Somewhere, a Twilight fan is crying, and doesn’t know why.  I mean, come on… why would a Twilight fan be reading this piece of drivel?

I’m sorry; I think I hath failed you all again.

I do try to keep my chapters roughly the same length.  I find it helps the reader’s flow and be able to allot a certain amount of time each day without being surprised.

Every so often, I fail rather miserably, like with Chapter Twenty-Three, which is nearly twice as long as the previous chapter.

But hey, you get more Dewin in the deal.  And I’m told he’s a pretty nifty character.  And you learn a bit more about him and how he has this somewhat irritating tendency to be in the right place at the right time.  And you get a shadowy character that doesn’t seem to be at all pleasant to be around.  And he seems awfully smug about it too.

This, I am led to believe, is good.