I could spend the
next few posts introducing you to more characters from my novel, Daughters of Darkwana, but the time soon
arrives to move on to a new topic for this blog.
I will, today and
for the final time, make another round of introductions from that novel. Today,
I introduce Mister Glasses and Sparrow.
Mister Glasses
wears a suit and (big surprise) a pair of tortoiseshell glasses. He carries a slim,
notorious, enchanted briefcase.
A three-digit
combination lock seals the case. While every combination causes the case to
open, each combination . . . well, allow me to demonstrate.
Let’s say you
dialed the combination of 0-9-8 into the case’s lock. The case would open, and
you could put your cellphone, or whatever else (worry not about size; you could
drive an entire RV into the case), inside it.
Shut it. Now, if
you open the case with a different combination, you will not discover your
cellphone inside it. Only the combination of 0-9-8 will produce the phone.
Glasses placed
every object of possible necessity inside the case. Whatever he needs, the
proper combination will cause the case to open and produce the required
item(s).
The briefcase lives.
It drools and possesses fangs. It will often snap at people it dislikes.
Glasses holds an
affection for fire. He worships fire’s “purifying nature.” He, as a child,
burned down his house with his parents trapped inside it. He prays that Hell
exists and that he will go there, forever embraced by flames.
He experiences
excitement whenever he burns someone.
He works as one of
Vasuki’s assassins.
I will not share
too much with you about Sparrow. His true identity serves as something of a
surprise in Daughters.
Sparrow, who
wishes to keep his aforementioned identity a secret, paints his face as a
geisha’s.
He wields
collapsible, razor-sharp, steel fans, which he can throw with deadly accuracy.
He bonded each fan to a magic fortune cookie. If he destroys one of the cookies,
the corresponding fan detonates.
I shall, next
post, discuss some of the changes I made along the way while I wrote Daughters, why I made those changes, and
what led me to those reasons.
I, after that, must
discuss the things I wish I had
changed in Daughters, poor decisions
with which I feel stuck and how another writer might avoid them.
Thanks for reading.
Daughters of Darkwana received a sweet, succinct
review, which you can read here, http://www.thebookeaters.co.uk/daughters-of-darkwana-by-martin-wolt-jr/
Also,
the third book in my series, Diaries of
Darkwana, recently arrived on Kindle. You can find the entire series at http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Darkwana&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ADarkwana
An
inside look at my novels (such as Daughters of Darkwana, which you can now find on Kindle) at Darkwana.blogspot.com
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