Weekend Writing Warriors: February 22, 2015

Welcome Warriors.  In light of yet another snowstorm in my part of the world, I'm focusing on what next Sunday is. The first of MARCH!  We're getting there... I can almost hear the spring peepers singing. :-)

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        Weekend Writing Warriors is a weekly bloghop. Each week, participants sign up HERE at wewriwa.com, then post 8 sentences of their work, published or unpublished, to go live between noon, Saturday, and 9:00 AM Sunday EST. Then we visit each other and read, comment, critique, encourage--all those things that do a solitary writer's heart good. 
          Snippet Sunday group from facebook--not us, but many of our participants do both, can be found HERE   

This is Chapter 2 from my WIP, ATNS, called "The Hunter"  where we're introduced to the male main character, Cuylrh (rhymes with Tyler). They're preparing for a hunt on a remote world. Abraxum is Cuylrh's "first guard", a royal designation. He is a teacher, mentor, and bodyguard to Cuylrh.

Last week's 8 ended with this,  spoken first by Cuylrh, then answered by his old guard, Abraxum:

“Your words carry your displeasure to my ears, most loyal guard. Would you speak what chafes you?”

Abraxum leaned close. “The hunt.”

We pick up from there:

“The hunt? What about this hunt could possibly aggrieve you?”

“No disrespect, m’Lord, but it’s not this hunt I speak of.”

Cuylrh lowered his face again, but this time his cheeks burned hot. Guilt or embarrassment, did it matter? He hated disappointing his old guard. A perfectly-timed, soft whistle off to his left interrupted them. While two bird-like trills sounded, Abraxum nodded at him and said, “They approach.”

 

  

           That's it. What works. What doesn't? I'm grateful for every comment you leave. :-) And thanks bunches and bunches for visiting!
         

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Have a great week, all!