Terra Fae

It sorta made sense to me that my second message here would be about Terra Fae as it is my ongoing novel that saw the day during NaNo 2014. 

As you might have noticed, I added a new tab called Terra Fae where I pasted every excerpt of my novel that I had posted on my other blog throughout this year's NaNo. The excerpts are now deleted on my French blog and will eventually get deleted here as well but for now, I wanted to keep the adventure alive! ^_^

I've come to realize that I love to write for the readers... This is something I have loved to do during NaNo: writing all day long and posting an excerpt of the day's work on my blog. So I would like to keep on doing that whenever I'm proud enough of a scene! ^_^
I hope no one will mind...

So, to keep with the word count: today, I have written 2 420 words even though I was off to a very sluggish start! (I had not written in three days so my brain was all bent out of shape! hihi) I'm now at a total of 52 820 words! Woohoo!! ^_^

And I've just introduced one of my favorite characters: Eva. :) (Warning: Ulie's gonna have a big onset of jealousy! Poor girl... I'm so mean with her!)

I wanted to share Eva's arrival with you guys, if I may... So she'll be my excerpt for today! :D
Happy reading! ^_^

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Novel excerpt

The two hours were over. The group had made it to the door of District 6 but there was still no sign of Xeres.

“You think something happened?” asked Hane, visibly worried.

She was probably referring to some problem during the heist at the mayor’s mansion, but Ulie totally heard a different question: were they gone some place and… doing something else?

She shook her head. “Come on, girl,” she scolded herself. “It’s like you’re obsessed with… physical…stuff lately. What’s going on with you?!”

Quinton replied to Hane but Ulie was so deep into her thoughts that she did not hear him. Soon after, laughter came to their ears.

The group turned around to find Xeres casually strolling down the street with a woman. Seeing the gang ahead, he waved a leather pouch in the air as a sign of victory: they had the document. But Ulie barely noticed... Her stomach spun on itself and landed back in its place at the sight of them approaching: the woman had her arm locked into Xeres’s.

And she was real pretty, too.

“We’ve got it!” said the town crier triumphantly as they reached the four others.

“Hi,” said the woman to Ulie, holding out her free hand, not letting go of Xeres’s arm. “I’m Eva. I don’t think we’ve met before…”

Ulie fought back tears; now that they were standing side by side, she could see she was no match against this woman. It was probably obvious to all! So obvious, in fact, that it was physically painful. She felt too young, too short, too average, too inexperienced, too useless, too… inadequate. And she hated that woman for all those unwelcomed feelings.

But most of all, she hated her for Xeres’s wide smile stamped on his face.

Seeing as Ulie was not replying, Hane chimed in: “That’s Ulie, our newest friend. She’s a little shy,” she explained.

“Oh! Well, no need to be shy with me,” said Eva. “I’m really an easy-going kinda person.”

She had close to a full head higher than the teenager and a slender, top shape build. Her shirt, that looked like it had been ripped off right under her perfectly proportioned-bust, displayed a flat belly gracefully showing abdominal muscles. She had short black hair that surrounded her head like a dark, wild fire and she had pale blue eyes that seemed to sparkle even in the night. And to make matters worse, she had this amazing smile that illuminated her whole face.

Ulie despised her, right from the start!

“So!” chimed in Xeres. “Let’s have a look at this at the hideout,” he said, designating the document.

“We can’t,” informed Krek while the rest of the gang looked at the ground with sadness.

“Why not?”

“Something happened there… We can’t go anymore, it’s too dangerous.”

“Oh great!” Xeres exclaimed, sarcastically. “We can’t go to the hideout, we can go to the Shelter, what’s left?”

“Well… the Guild’s nearby,” suggested Eva.

Xeres looked at her with surprise. “That’s true,” he said. “I hadn’t even thought of that… You’re so smart! What would I do without you?” he teased.

She giggled.

And Ulie clenched her jaws: oh how she loathed her!