So I've been posting excerpts from a story I'm writing, the idea for which I got from a dream. I've been trying to draw excerpts too...but it isn't working. Anyway, I'm going to explain the story here. Some other time I'll do character descriptions, I know Sunhollow wanted some of those. I'll try to have them up by the end of this week. Many of these characters are based off real people.
Anyways, there are two narrators, Kia and Lyssie (full name Elyssa). Kia is the name I gave my character. I didn't mean for it to be like the car. I thought up that name before the car came out. Anyway, there are these evil people called the Officials, and for a long time they have been trying to take over the world. For a long time, certain people have been working to stop them--among them, Kia's aunt Becca and uncle Jake, and her second cousin Callie's fiance, Rocky. The leaders of this anti-officials organization have always been Lyssie's family. Then the Officials discover dormant powers in the Earth and awaken them, allowing them to take over, but the terrible powers become too strong for them to control.
Kia's perspective: She's just a fifteen-year-old girl, and suddenly her world has become terrifying. The Officials take over and they've forced everyone out of their homes into new ones. Because Kia has relatives that were against the Officials, they are not given real houses. Distant relatives are forced to live together in the unfinished structure of a tall apartment building in a small town in Maine, about ten miles from the ocean. The Officials spread propaganda against those they don't like, but Kia doesn't believe it. After all, her aunt and uncle were NOT violent hit-men. And the most wanted girl in the country--Elyssa Venidal, a fifteen-year-old-girl like herself--surely is not the ruthless serial killer the Officials say she is. In the panic of the Officials' world takeover, Kia remains calm and assures that the rest of her family is alive. Around her family, the new household gathers. As a small act of defiance against the Officials, Kia begins to locate wanted people, known opposers of the Officials, and shelters them in her home. And one night, she finds the most wanted fugitive in the country--Elyssa Venidal herself.
Lyssie's perspective: Lyssie's never just lived with her close family. They lived in a big house with all the extended family, too. Lyssie, along with her brothers, sisters, and cousins, have been trained to fight, to survive, but not to kill. Her family's always been fighting the rising Officials. And quite by accident, Lyssie discovers one of the powers unleashed by the Officials. Only she finds out too late. They swarm her family's house, and only she and her six-year-old sister, Aurora (nicknamed Mothy) escape. Now they're fighting to destabilize the Officials and show the world the truth--the Officials want total control, and they are not leading the world into a bright new future. But these awakened powers--strange things are happening. Amazing things. Terrible things. For the time being, Lyssie tells herself, she must search for the rest of her family, because if she did not see them die, she refuses to believe that they are dead. And then one night, Lyssie is separated from her sister. In the desperate search that follows, Lyssie is rescued by a girl her age, Kia Ledwin. Kia and some members of her family, Lyssie discover, are not oblivious to the lies of the Officials. And they, unlike so many of the untrained citizens, are not useless in a fight. The problem is, aside from helping the fugitives, they have no plan. Until Lyssie comes along, that is...
Among the newly awakened powers--some people, when they die in certain ways, do not stay dead, but regenerate stronger than ever. Guns become almost useless because a shooter never knows if their victim is suddenly going to come back to life, now bulletproof and angry. But most people aren't aware of this. The Officials are aware--so they have a different way of keeping their opposers down. It has to do with another of the awakened powers, a power that is centralized underground in a mazelike series of caves. This power drains a person's sense of who they are until they have only the vaguest recollections of their own lives. They remember no language, so they cannot speak, though words are slightly familiar to them. The sound of their own name would bother them because it is so familiar and yet they cannot recall the significance of it. Instinct makes them eat and drink whatever they find, but such a mentally lost person could never find their way out of the caverns. Sometimes, if someone in there is rescued or finds their way out by chance, their memories will come back to them. But after a certain amount of time, the mind is made permanently blank, and there is no going back. And where is this terrible place? In Maine, very near a couple of towns, and not too far from the ocean.
That's all you really need to know to understand the story. The rest will become apparent as you read. If anyone's even reading this.
