Paul SB - BackboneofNight sub05, 3462 words (some mention of SA)

[Paul SB]

Back for more! The first entry has the mentor character (JRR) call in RM (the siekick/romantic interest) to give her a special assignment, one that is much more personal, that she has to keep a secret from AH (the official protagonist). I hope it doesn’t come across like a big coincidence.

 

The second entry is told from the POV of the character that has gone cataleptic. In the middle is a flashback to just before the events of the first book. The whole flashback is in italics, and it’s clear to me what’s happening, but I’m not sure other readers might get confused. If that’s the case for you, pleas let me know and any suggestions that could make it more clear.

 

Thanks again!

 

The Backbone of Night

In last week’s episode …

 

Sub 01

Entry 02.01 — After the events of Volume 1, Amal and her hex have been taking it easy in Twilight’s Rift with Valirand and it’s mate and new baby. After Valirand invites Rey to be the first human to go inside the baby, Toona freaks out and attacks Rey using a telekinetic ability no one knew she had, then goes back into the cataleptic state she had spent most of her life in.

 

Supplemental Entry 024BFZ7//-008 — Archbishop Cyril IX, the nominal head of the Church of the Holy Flame, the only religious organization that openly exists in the Meritocracy, meets with his underlings to discuss two projects that the Church is implementing now that the Meritocracy is in a labor crisis. One involves a planet that they have set up as a pilgrim site, the other a program of assassinations. Cyril decides to send an agent of the morality police to the pilgrimage site under the pretense of concern over entertainments.

 

Entry 02.02 — The Hex transfer from V to M so V can stay home with the baby while M flies them back to Tel. space in the hopes that the aliens can figure out what’s wrong with Too.

 

Supplemental Entry 024BFF1//-006 — While President M is away on some mission, Mor. is in charge, and she decides to visit a cafeteria and pretend to be an ordinary employee to get an idea of what the unwashed masses are talking about (the old Henry V trick).

 

Entry 02.03 — The hex meet up with some familiar Tel. and find out that the human colony is not faring well.

 

Entry 02.04 — A & R meet the command nexus in charge of the colony and find that the situation is worse than they had guessed, and the leader is arrogant and hostile to them.

 

Supplemental Entry 166JAR\\-017 — The patron of our protagonists meets them and gives them assignments to help expose the Church’s fraudulent pilgrimage planet. This will involve splitting the group up.

 

Supplemental Entry 126TVU//-011— We meet a few operatives for the Underground who have to deal with the chaos that human space has been thrown into because of the labor crisis they caused in the previous book.

 

 

 

Bon Apetít!