The Endless Weekend

Thats Summer for you: One, big, long, and seemingly endless weekend. A time to practice the few luxuries of freedom in life before the weekdays of school inevitably return.

Yeah, sorry about that, I'm still in writing mode. Believe it or not, I'm actually making progress with Ascension. Here's part of the opening that I've been working on all day: (constructive criticism is appreciated)

The sky was a burning red- a twisted testimony to the destruction that had plagued the very land under his feet in an age long past. Sila’threan it was called by his people: The Nightmare Land. It was a realm that was void of any form of Fae or Kai, an ashen waste where the tainting presence of the Void still lingered, enough to drive a being mad and into a feral state of existence. It was these lands that served as the forbidden grounds of his people, the one place where his nomadic race dared not tread. It was these lands that he called his home, and it was these lands that he had survived in a tortured existence for decades in hope of escaping the horrors of his past: horrors that he wanted to forget, but was forced to remember.
Scourge they called him; Bane, Destroyer, Exile. He had many names from all corners of the realm of Intai’sei, enough so that he had long forgotten his birth name. To the few that remembered his existence, he was known as Vaec, “The Forsaken One.” He had ceased to care: he was stripped, an empty, soulless husk, a Void. Yet it was this emptiness that gave him strength, allowing him to survive where all others could not. The only thing that kept him going was a simple, driving hatred against those who had wronged him all that time ago. It was this rage that kept him moving through every agonizing step in this hellish wasteland, every footfall shooting tendrils of pain through his very being. Rage was all he was now, Rage and Hatred, and one day, yes, one day, he would have retribution.
With agonizing effort he raised himself to his feet, the pain of the simple movement nearly forcing him back to his knees once more. Even in his empty state, the Void’s lingering presence still pained him, yet he had come to live with it: they were one and the same after all, and it was his emptiness that kept him alive where all other should fall. He raised his eyes to the sunrise that lay on the horizon, painting the overhanging clouds a blood-red hue. East was his goal, as it had been for year upon year. He knew not what drove him, yet some supernatural force kept moving his feet towards the blood-red sunrise that brought every agonizing day. And he obeyed, his rage, his hatred, and his pain driving him ever forward.

If you remember the background to Ascension (the fae and kai thing?) you will know that every lifeform on the plane of existence that is known as Intai'sei is made of either the life energy of Fae or Kai (with the Insetti being sentient beings of Fae and the Kantras, Vaec's species, of Kai.) Vaec, or "him", was stripped of that energy years ago, yet didn't have the good fortune to die. For some reason, he survived, and became a barren husk of a being who's sole purpose lay in revenge on those who had wronged him in such a way. He was exiled to the Nightmare Lands, a wasteland that in tainted by a Void that was caused in a great clash between Fae and Kai ages past. This Void that is present in the Nightmare Lands feeds on Fae and Kai energy, which would lead to the death of any lifeform that stepped foot onto the realm's barren ground, but Vaec is spared from death due to having no life energy to be consumed. The Void still causes him unbearable pain as it attempts to feed on him, but as Vaec's life does not rely on Fae or Kai energy, it cannot kill him. So, how does it sound?

On to life. Lets see... girls (or, in this case, one girl), hanging uptown or at the movies with my friends every other day, running, or summer work (mowing the lawn, stacking wood, etc) is dominating every waking hour of my day, so I'm pretty dang busy. Since the Bonfire Saturday, I've had friends hang out at my house on Sunday, hanged out uptown on Tuesday, went to see a movie on Wednesday, experienced my first kinda-date on Friday, and went uptown on Saturday. So yeah, busy week, and my nights are no better, being wasted on Xbox, facebook, and texting (often at the same time). Haven't had much time to write, or update my blog, but I'll try to do my best this summer.

That's about it for this week. Haven't been arrested by the police or anything, so thats a plus, considering that it's summer. Oh, and as a last note, sweet child of mine by Guns and Roses, but this time in orchestra version, and without words. Its actually very pretty, believe it or not.