Planning a novel in a month is serious business. Writing one in a month is nuts. Now planning one in ten minutes a day over the course of a month? I like that challenge. So, here we go with day 8
Chapter 5
Aleida has started to become more and more stressed as the unit pushes closer to the border in a series of skirmishes designed to press the enemy towards the pincer of two armies. She’s being manipulative, but Ikrivain cannot seem to recognize it. He’s falling for her and by now he’s willing to prove himself to her.
His entire life has been about being protected and now he has a chance to protect someone and he is going to take that chance. She reveals the problem. Aleida has within her the same ability that is within him…
<This is where I am having some problems with the plot–I want her to convince him to cross the border on a dangerous mission to rescue someone. So, here it goes>
Aleida’s brother was captured by the forces on the other border. She knows he is not a good person, but the longer he is in captivity and the longer they torture him, the weaker she grows. She reveals that she convinced their lord to bring them here because she wanted a chance to get her brother. However, now she is too weak because of whatever they are doing to him as a way to oppose the Horde’s magic.
It is convoluted and complicated, but all he hears is that her brother is captured across the border and this was their only way to get close. He must now decide whether to cross the lines and try to rescue her brother from captivity in the other realm, though doing so could mark him an outlaw.
He decides her life is worth it and in the dead of night he gathers his things and begins to head over to the other lands. It is not long before he realizes he is being followed. He’s made a friend in Marek and his friend won’t let him go alone. The twins are also along for the ride, for they can find no greater pleasure than the mystery of this mission. They now Aleida and they serve the same master as she, but they have no real allegiance to her. They are here out of a quickly budding friendship.