Chapter 6: Before Dawn.
This was GOING to be one long chapter but I split it up because reasons. reasons like: "I'm sleepy" and "Oh, there's a nice cliffhanger ha ha ha" so yeah. I was pretty happy with how this came out.
I wrote it over a very long weekend, mostly sunday afternoon at the Scottish Highland games in Ventura. T'was pretty awesome.
so, onward. THIS IS THE NIGHT WHERE STUFF WENT DOWN. everything's going wrong and Ken is on the edges of it.
here is also where Ken sorta breaks a little because everything is so real and he thinks the kids are *dead* and feels so *guilty* poor baby Ken I just want to hug him.
Also tiny cuteness with Joe and Mimi with Joe having fallen protecting her as she protected Palmon. cuties.
And then of course is the line that was supposed to be in the last chapter, with Ken realizing that this scene- the dead kids- was what he had been trying to do for MONTHS and he feels so awful and wretched and it's ripping him apart.
AND THEN A DREAM YAY DREAMS ARE SUCH FUN.
Seriously. prophetic Voice-dreams for everyone.
And while the Voice spoke to T.K. and Kari to warn, it speaks to Ken to reassure. to comfort. to say, you are not a monster.
because above all that's what Ken needs to know. and there is a last phrase, unfinished, only half heard.
and It'll come up in one of the last two chapters. Promise.
finally, the end scene. Kari falls from the sky. you all will get to find out how she survived! exciting!
I'll try to update soonish.
