The World Walkers: Athare: Riordan: The First World Walker (part 2)

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Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

Polls – Please Vote

The Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments bonus story poll hasn’t seen any new votes, so there is still a tie. I’ll leave it up until the end of the week before I decide what I’m going to do, because I want to get the bonus story written for Elizabeth, which gives anyone interested a few days to vote.

The Voter’s Story poll and the Prompter’s story poll also both need more votes. The Voter’s poll is tied, while there’s only one vote on the Prompter’s polll, so please come and vote for the collection you want both stories set in, because then I’ll be able to make a start on them.

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Update: 9th April

James and I have been talking about him possibly going back to college to do a mechanics course of some form. The plan was, several years ago, for him to join the RAF, but there were problems: he has hayfever so he can’t be a pilot; they weren’t recruiting at the time for the job role he wanted; and then they changed the system in a way that made it into a confusing mess. His second option has always been mechanics/engineering, because he’s a very practical person. Between the two of us we managed to change the gearbox in his old car and he did most of the work. If last year hadn’t turned into the mess it became he probably would have started applying then, because he wants to do something with his life that isn’t just working in a petrol station shop. I want him to be able to do it too.

In order for me to help him out this site needs to start earning me money. I post a lot for free and I love doing it – writing for me has never been about money. However money is something that I need and I want to earn it doing what I love. So, if you want to help me get to a stage where I’m not worrying any more about possibly having to get a ‘real’ job, then there are several ways you can.

Sponsor a story; sponsor a collection; adopt a character; rent a setting; or just send a donation to say thank you. There are site perks and donor perks (and all donor perks can be changed to suit you, so if you don’t want to name a character then we can work an alternative out). I’m working on the ebooks of the collections, so my aim is to have at least one of them ready by the end of the month, although there are going to be collections that will take longer than others to prepare (the Donor House and the World Walkers). The first section of the Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments should be ready by the end of the month too.

Basically the more money I get for the work I do the more I can do for my readers. I’m lucky to have someone like James in my life who gives me the time I need to do this, but if I’m not getting any income this way then I’ll have to think of something else, because the burden of paying for everything can’t always be on James’ shoulders.

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The ‘Astral’ World: Rae: No Escape

When the magicians came it was thanks to nothing more than luck that Rae escaped. They had come unexpectedly, and the more she thought about it the more certain she became that someone was giving away the locations of the portals which would lead the magicians straight to the safe houses. She knew she wasn’t safe, either from the people she had once thought of as allies or her enemies. All she could do was keep running, because she knew, at the very least, the magicians would be hunting her. In her mind she had a vague idea how she was going to stay safe, but it meant finding a portal so she could travel to the other world.

No one knew it was called. That was something the magicians had kept hidden from them, because names had power. With the name of the world in their hands they’d be one step closer to making magic something that anyone could use. At least that was what Rae had always been told their aim was. It wasn’t right for the magicians to be the only ones who could use magic, apparently, but she was beginning to wonder how they even knew the other world existed. History wasn’t something they’d been taught when they chose to go to the school, so if she wanted to learn about the two worlds there was only one place she could go.

The only problem was the magicians. On the other world there were houses that belonged to the magicians and that was where they went to steal things that might help them. Unfortunately the magicians knew what they were after, so put useless duplicates in the places of anything useful. That was another thing that made Rae think that someone was telling the magicians when they were going and what they were after. It didn’t make sense for them to simply make the right guesses every time. Although there was the possibility that they had someone who could see the future. None of the thieves knew enough about the magic the magicians had to know for sure what they could and couldn’t do.

What Rae needed to do was enter the world from a different portal and hope that she found a house that she’d never been to before. That way she could pretend that she’d simply stumbled across the world. She’d already been lucky enough to escape when the rest of the thieves in her safe house had either been killed or captured, so all she could do was hope that she’d be just as lucky when she found the portal she was looking for. Of course there was every chance that the magicians shared what they knew about the thieves, because they did occasionally work together, but she had to try. It really was her only option, especially as she wanted to warn the other thieves that there might be someone within their organisation working against them. They probably wouldn’t believe her, but at least she would have tried, and that was better than not trying at all.

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