life in the subjunctive mode

May 9th, Year 0

( Enya's turn to be deified )

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Postscript:

Matt and Neil use the pumpkins to make pies, served with an improbable number of peas (Eŋya is sure that he and Naike didn't pick all the peas, but there are enough for everyone to heap their plate high) and that is what they eat for dinner. Nyali attacks his slice with a ferocity heretofore unseen and consumes at least half a pie on his own, as well as a bowl of peas. The farmer in Eŋya, the one who loves to feed people, smiles.

WORK IN PROGRESS. Saving said progress in this format, because it's more efficient than having a billion sub-categorized folders on my computer. This is a lot of fun to write, but also pretty depressing. I don't think that I'm adequately portraying how depressing it is, but I feel it, trust me. I don't want to jinx this by saying that it's something I'm going to go back and revise (definitely expand, a lot), but I'd like to finish it. I think it's interesting because I'm actually learning about the characters; I'm not writing what I know.

Also, I like apocalyptic stories. So much pathos to be had. I'm especially enjoying the role that language plays, and the added difficulty of, as Willow notes, having your house full of refugees when you yourself are shortly about to become a refugee, and more importantly, you cannot communicate efficiently with them.

Čhatma can understand and write English all right, but he can't for the life of him pronounce anything. I got the idea from a Japanese tutor my class had - she's nearly fluent in English, but because she has such a heavy accent, I didn't know that until I saw something she had written that was in perfect English. So that's what he's based on - the sounds  and cadence in Samicze are so different that it's hard to understand him when he speaks.

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( In Which the Apocalypse Comes And 99% of the Rift World Dies )

At this point, I run out of steam. Or, rather, I run out of exciting apocalyptic scenes. Oh well. That can change. Yes, also, that is Nyali that Kephri is talking to at the end, and the black woman is Reed Henry.