Year-long NaNo discussion

“You should really just teleport us.”

I turn to the nagging woman in the shotgun seat. “Just let me drive in peace, woman.”

“I’m not your problem!” she cries before pointing at the rear-view mirror. “They are!”

I barely glance up to see our small army of Amerio garage before shrugging. “I wouldn’t go so far as to call them a problem.”

One of them sticks a rifle out of their own shotgun window and shoots it at us.

She gives me a look like that proves her point.

“They’re the ones with the problem. Think of the chaos they’ll return to, and what they’ll have to go through when they admit to letting me go.” A smile escapes at that.

She doesn’t look convinced, and then another bullet flies, shattering through our rear-view mirror, flying between us, and shattering the front mirror.

I shield my face as glass pierces my hand before turning to see the bridge lifting for a ferry before us.

“Kristian!” she screams.

“I see it, I see it.” I push my gas pedal down harder as we crash through the gates and start driving up the rising ramp.

She reaches for my steering wheel. “We’re not going to make it!”

I push her back in her seat. “Exactly.”

With that, we go flying off the ramp and sailing toward the next one.

Suddenly, there’s so much noise that everything goes silent. My passenger may or may not scream. I may or may not say something snide.

But if we do, it’s lost in the descent to the river.

And that was a scene between Kristian and his leading lady in this very interesting dimension of their relationship since everything has changed in the climax of the last book.

SHINE wrote: "I’m so intrigued!"
I am a bit too. I've been with these characters so far in the future, it's strange coming back to this point of their life with them.

And now a snippet of a man dealing with his new antihero status:

I force myself to look at my reflection in the mirror. No, not my reflection. The reflection of the man who owned this body before me. Possession is nine tenth of the law, but who is this thief?

Reaching up, I push my overgrown dark hair out of my very blue eyes. Windows to the soul. But I don’t have a soul anymore, now do I? All I do have are shattered memories of a life that’s dead to me.

A scene that might need a bit more research into the laws of physics because I want it to be 'the classic scene' of this book(Note that I have again removed all instances of the heroine's name):

Suddenly, bullets are pouring out of the drone, fracturing the glass and denting the mental.

I grasp the controls and turn us around, only to find two more shooting us from now. How many-

The glass screen explodes, sending shards everywhere. I turn away to protect my face before pushing the throttle forward, toward them and also downward, both to shield us and to try and chop them with the propellers.

She screams beside me and I turn to see part of the metal paneling peeling off the helicopter and beginning to flap in the wind- at her seat. It hits her over her head, and then she’s silent.

As I watch her, a bullet pierces my shoulder. I feel my bone fracturing even as it goes through me into my chair.

There’s only one option now- besides death, that is.

“Let me not pass out,” I hiss, tearing off my constraints and grabbing hold of her chair as bullets turn mine into nothing.
Half hanging out of the helicopter, one hand clutching the controls, and the other trying to grab onto the woman. Feel her in my arm for sure.

Because I have only one chance to do this.

Ooo, suspense! I'm trying to wrack my brain to figure out if I know any of these, besides Kristian, of course.

Ooos, this last one is actually to my space story.

Jes wrote: "Ooos, this last one is actually to my space story."

Haha, now that does help clarify things.

I’m dead. The flames around me are Hell.

I just hope Allen thinks of me every now and then on earth. He’ll certainly forget me in Heaven.

“Over here- someone is over here.”

Oh, great- now a demon has found me already. This will be fun.
How much more pain can I feel past the heat licking at my skin, smoke stinging my eyes, and ashes swelling my tongue…

A tall figure appears in my hazy vision while others rush around him, dragging along other shadows.

But this one. This one kneels down beside me and scoops me into his arms, away from the melting metal. He rushes away from the plane.

What do demons do again? Bad stuff? Like, out of the frying pan and into the fire?

“No,” I moan, trying to fight him off, but my body doesn’t respond.
But he doesn’t release me. Instead, a familiar voice soothes my ear. “Oh, little Rhyan, what have you done?”

Eitan Cohren?

That was such a humorous excerpt. I love it!

Oceane wrote: "That was such a humorous excerpt. I love it!"

Thank you.

Jes wrote: "Oceane wrote: "That was such a humorous excerpt. I love it!"

Thank you."

Rhyan does have a sardonic humor even when she thinks she's dead.

The moment she says that, all three appear. Other Kristian looking a little worse for wear, and Allen looking a lot worse.

Amelia hugs Garret before frowning. “Where is Kristian?”

Garret and Allen glances around. “He’s not with us?”

As if Allen weren’t pale enough, he loses another shade. “He said it was his last trip.”

My heart skips a beat. No…

“He said that he loves you, Susan,” Amelia whispers. “And that he was bringing everyone you love back to you.”

Other Kristian moans. “I need to go… after him.”

Allen frowns. “Not in your state.”

I feel like I’m going to be sick all over again. Kristian doesn’t think I love him. He thinks I’ll be better off without him.

But isn’t that what I originally thought?

Jes wrote: "The moment she says that, all three appear. Other Kristian looking a little worse for wear, and Allen looking a lot worse.

Amelia hugs Garret before frowning. “Where is Kristian?”

Garret and Alle..."

Aww, Susan and Kristian! *heart eyes*

Oceane wrote: "Jes wrote: "The moment she says that, all three appear. Other Kristian looking a little worse for wear, and Allen looking a lot worse.

Amelia hugs Garret before frowning. “Where is Kristian?”

Gar..."

:)

SHINE wrote: "I'm already on the edge!"

That was part of the climax of Part One.