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“The Prologue for the Varcarel Jade story was published, and so now we got two pages on the web comic site!”
“Okay, so like how do you get from one page to the next?”
“There are ‘Previous Page’ and ‘Next Page’ links at the bottom of each page.”
“Sweet! Bonus update action, folks! Have fun!”
Blog: LadyStar (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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“We got a LadyStar champ too and his name is Michael!”
“Yep, aced it. Five for five.”
“Now Talitha-chan gots all the answers ’cause she’s the smartest girl in our whole school! Did you know that Talitha-chan has a computer that she programmed all by herself? She even showed me how to make unicorns my wallpaper on my computer time at school!”
“Okay what were all the answers so we can make our quiz all official and stuff?”
“Okay for question one, wildflowers grow alongside the walkway at your house.”
“Right! My mom loves her wildflowers.”
“Question Two, Cici found the Chronicler’s Lantern in Collins Park near the topiary and statues of forest animals. The closest statue was a deer.”
“Good thing Little Bit found that lantern or the Ajan Warriors would have been sunk pretty quick.”
“I know the third one! Our band room is number 74! I know that ’cause I almost got lost on the first day and Dr. Strings helped me find it. He’s a nice man. I want to take science classes where he’s the teacher ’cause he knows lots of stuff about science.”
“Question Four, we found the Goldenwood Shield in the Venom Deeps in talisman form.”
“Then the Professor got the POWA and zap zap zappity! The baddies were toast.”
“Question Five, The LadyStar fought the Vulture Crest at a place called Kulnas Forge.”
“Yeah, that dream was super scary too.”
“There you have it folks. We’re going to do quizzes for all of our Ten Update days, so if you missed this one, study up, read all the chapters and you’ll be ready for the next one. Maybe you can be a LadyStar champ!”
“Oh, and don’t forget to VOTE! Over there on the left side of all pages at the top. Only takes a second. We’d like to hear what you think!”
Blog: LadyStar (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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“I think there’s lots of people who come to our site and want to learn all about LadyStar but they get confused ’cause we have so much stuff going on!”
“I know I get confused and I’ve been here for a while now.”
zzzzzzz….
“Do you realize Hikousen’s been asleep for six years?”
“Heheee.. he’s our guard kitty.”
“Okay, do the update. You guys always run off on these crazy tangents and we never get the update done.”
“Okay Alanna-sama. We’re gonna tell you all about a page that new people might not know about ’cause it’s a click that Talitha-chan put in the site instead of in our menu which we don’t have any more.”
“And if you understood that, you are WAY more mentally focused than me, because my brain just turned into mashed potatoes.”
“See, looky! This is one of our buttons, and it’s on all of our articles no matter where they are on our whole site. It’s the red heart button with our logo and it’s called the Crimson Thunder Heart logo. This is what it looks like:”
“Clicking that button will always take you to our What is LadyStar? page, which will give you a good introduction to our site and our story.”
“If you look on the left column under the poll question we got right now…”
“Yeah! Anyway, there’s four book covers in the left side column. Those are all of our books, and when you click on them you get to read them for free right here on our site. We did that ’cause we want everyone to read our stories and join in all our neat adventures!”
“So if you’re new to our site, welcome to LadyStar and be sure to read the What is LadyStar? page. Then you can jump right in to our stories. We just got through updating the Call of the Huntress Preview Page (which is my book *happy dance*), with all six of our current previews of the third book in our series. The first two books are complete and published and you can read them all for free.”
“See you all in the story, folks. Ten Update Friday continues! Don’t miss out!”
Blog: LadyStar (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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“She’s like one of those little mechanical guys that walks out of a clock and announces stuff.”
“Well, the Chronicler’s Lantern does turn into a jeweled timepiece.”
“You guys got that Heavenly Sword game review published, huh?”
“Yeah! It’s got a girl with red hair and she’s got a super powerful sword and then you know what?”
“She can fly around when she’s fighting too! And her sister is named Kai and there’s this really fat guy that she beats up in the game and it’s soooo pretty all the places you get to go.”
“Well, that about covers the review. What do you think, Space girl?”
“Affirmative. Review transferred to core circuits for priority transmission to the Hana.”
“There you go, Cici. You’re an official Gamepowa.com reviewer.”
“Check out the Gamepowa review of Heavenly Sword for the Playstation 3 folks. And don’t forget to vote. Left side. Big red box. We be out.”
Blog: LadyStar (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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“Updated the Winterdancer Page too.”
“Awesome. I love that chapter with the bang, pow, zap. I can’t wait until we get our powers. We’re going to have some great battles.”
“Yeah, we had a bit of a disagreement. If you like combat action, you’ll probably like this preview called Valor of the Winterdancer.”
“Alanna-sama’s the Winterdancer, ’cause that’s her title of lore when she gets all her neat powers. Did you know the Warrior of the River’s powers are all from snow and ice? It even says so on her warrior page! Looky!”
Blog: LadyStar (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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“Okay, Hayashi and me fixed the Call of the Huntress page, and we got all of the links linked and the pages where they’re supposed to be.”
“Goody, ’cause I wanna read more about Shannon-sama and her big magical kitty cat named Kishi. There’s six previews now, huh?”
“Yes, and they’re all linked from the Call of the Huntress Preview Page. The four-part Plot Against the Vicereine Story is linked together as well, so you can read all four parts in sequence.”
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Shannon looked around. Some of the plants had grown rather close to the water on the opposite side of the narrow brook. One of the plants looked odd and Shannon couldn’t quite figure out why. She continued looking at it, trying to sort the leaves from the branches. It was a very dense plant, and the leaves were larger than most of the other plants, so it was hard to tell which leaf was which.
What she noticed, however, was the long light brown strings that seemed to run around and around the branches. It looked almost as if they were hanging there. Then Shannon realized they were. She stood up and stepped over the shallow water to get a closer look. Strung through the outer edge of the shrub’s branches were two long light brown cords that looked very much like they were made of the same kind of leather as her scabbard. Shannon picked them up. The two pieces were about the width of a shoelace, but at least twice as thick.
I wonder where these could have come from? Shannon thought. She looked back and forth, wondering if someone had perhaps dropped them or they snagged the plant as they passed. Then Shannon started scouting along the ground around the banks of the nearby brook, thinking perhaps whomever had lost these cords had perhaps dropped other items. After a few moments, however, Shannon had found nothing, so she carried them back to where she had been sitting.
As she sat examining the two laces, she glanced at the scabbard she had set down by the edge of the water. She picked it up and took a closer look at it. Sure enough, the scabbard and laces seemed to be made of almost exactly the same material. I knew it, Shannon thought. Maybe the scabbard and laces went together somehow?
Shannon examined the scabbard closely. There were twin sets of two notches cut into one side of the flat leather, but they were far too small to thread the laces through. Shannon exhaled impatiently and dropped her hands to her lap, still holding the laces and scabbard. What are these for? Why don’t they go together?
“You are going to be in such trouble when the farmer finds out you raided his apples,” a voice said from behind Shannon. She quickly turned to look. A boy about her age was leaning against one of the ash trees near the brook, staring off in another direction. He was dressed in ragged canvas pants and a dingy-looking light-colored long-sleeve shirt. He was tossing a small dark-colored coin of some kind with one hand. He turned his head to look at her and raised an eyebrow.
“Shouldn’t you be about your chores, princess?” he said with a smirk.
Shannon sat agape. At least a dozen different emotions collided in her mind, shouting for attention. The majority were various degrees of annoyance, anger, frustration, embarassment and apprehension. About all Shannon could manage was one sputtering response.
“I’m not a princess!”
“Whatever you say,” the boy replied, turning back to staring into the forest. His shock of brown hair was combed only in the most liberal sense of the word. Not that it seemed to concern him in the slightest.
“I could put in a good word for you with the farmer, but I’ll have to ask for a favor, you know,” he said.
“Why you..” Shannon got to her feet and clenched her fists. The boy turned and put his hands out to try and calm Shannon down.
“Hey, hey, don’t mean no harm, princess. I’m just on the lookout for a few coins so I can buy my breakfast all honest-like. Don’t want the merchants to think I’m a shady type.”
“Do I look like I have any coins? Why would I be picking apples if I had coins to buy them with you stupid, raggedy-looking doofus! And if I did have any coins the last person I’d give them to would be you. And stop calling me princess. I’m a high school student and I’m a squad leader in band!” Shannon almost shouted.
“And you’ve got a bit of a temper, haven’t you?” the boy winked. Shannon frowned, mouth open. She was rapidly becoming too angry for speech. She clenched her eyes shut.
“Ooooh!” she exclaimed in a frustrated tone, then whirled around and plopped back down on her spot by the brook.
The boy observed Shannon sitting with her back turned for a few moments, then put his hands in his pockets and sauntered over near where she was sitting.
“Where’d ya get that knife?” he asked.
“I found it,” Shannon snapped, then folded her arms with emphasis.
“Bet it’d sell for a tidy sum,” he persisted.
“It’s not for sale,” Shannon replied. “It’s mine.”
“Well, you said you found it. Could belong to someone else,” the boy said, rocking back and forth on his heels and looking out over the water.
“They don’t want to sell it either,” Shannon said. The boy chuckled.
“How do you know they don’t want to sell it?” he asked with an amused tone.
“Because I just do,” Shannon frowned stubbornly.
“Do you always get what you want?” the boy asked.
“Yes,” Shannon said with a note of finality.
“And you say you’re not a princess,” the boy teased. Shannon looked up with an astonished expression. The boy’s blue eyes made him look curious about her more than anything else.
“Ran away from home myself last harvest.” He smiled and nodded his head in an upstream direction. “There’s an abandoned barn on the opposite side of that stand of maple if the night breeze gets too cold for you. Watch out for the farmer though. He’s a mean one.”
The boy picked his way down the bank towards a large rock in the stream, then expertly hopped across to the opposite bank. Moments later he disappeared into the trees again.
Shannon sat with an expression of total incredulity on her face. Just who did he think he was?
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Blog: LadyStar (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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“Hey everyone. We’ve had quite a few updates for the third book in our series, Call of the Huntress, so I thought it would be a good idea to make a list of what we’ve previewed so far.”
“That’s a great idea Shannon-sama!”
“Thanks, Hoshi! Okay, our first preview was By the Light of the Stars which is the story of the Warrior of the Night battling reptile-like monsters called Carcs.”
“Yucky. I don’t like monsters.”
“The second update was a four-part series called the Plot Against the Vicereine, about a noble in Aventar who gets attacked by evil assassins. Here’s Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four.”
“The Vicereine seems like she’s real strong. I hope we don’t have to fight her.”
“Yeah, but she gave that little boy a silver coin even though the price of the flower was a lot less. I think that was really nice.”
“Yeah! That was nice, huh? I wonder what a cruss ring is though.”
“So how come you decided to do a preview roundup today?”
“Ooh! You’re gonna have another preview?! Realeeeee?”
“Check back later today everyone! A brand new exclusive preview from Book Three of our series Call of the Huntress, right here. See ya then!”
“Don’t miss the new preview! Ja minna!”
magical, eerie looking colours, as though it's not quite real, terrific stuff.
A cactus always seems to know something that the other plants don't.
I'm joining the Cactus Monday Movement.
Beautiful cactus painting
Thanks for your comment! It is great living here...we don't own, but who cares? We have a wonderful little cottage that we rent just a walk to the beach.September through Christmas is a good time to visit....And the Edward Gorey museum just a boat ride away!just the locals and peacefulness...I like your work!
I love small paintings. :)
Great job on this!! It looks like an agave which is a succulent, but it works great for Cactus Monday!! Love it.
of course you may use your agave or any succulent for Cactus Monday-they are first cousins...close enough!
i love this painting! wonderful feeling and colors. i have some of these plants in my yard here in texas :)
This painting is stunning!!! I love the colors and shading...great work....
and you're so right about cupcakes...I have been making cupcake art for ages now ...but everywhere I look these days it's a cupcake world...
Have a wonderful day!
Cheers,
Diana
I can definitely see why you waould call this one Cactus Meditation. It is very soothing and makes one feel pensive and "in tune". Very beautiful!
Looks like have missed a lot here! I did not think I was gone that long! :) Let's see what else you've been up to...
Ooh, I LOVE this. I'm heading over to your Etsy shop right now...