diff --git a/scripts/redo-continuously b/scripts/redo-continuously index 9b3db32..c115b08 100755 --- a/scripts/redo-continuously +++ b/scripts/redo-continuously @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell #! nix-shell -p redo-apenwarr -p entr -i bash +redo all redo-sources | entr redo all \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/src/chapter-1/scene-4.md b/src/chapter-1/scene-4.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..34512e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/chapter-1/scene-4.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +\pagebreak + +Alicia strode across camp and made her way to her team's barracks. Her team was +one of the better performing ones in the Zhalrami School of Bladecraft. It got +her to thinking about her father. + +Her father had done a lot of the hard work raising her after her mother passed +from the mage trials. The Zhalrami army was so desperate for spellcasters that +they had invaded her home town of Letsel and found her mother. Alicia's mother +Ashe was a natural born mage, absurdly skilled in her craft. She used her talent +to help her community thrive. Tistus had gotten into a tustle one day and had +broken his arm. Without Ashe's intervention, Tistus would have easily suffered a +life of deformity or worse. + +Alicia paused as she approached her cot. It was exactly as she had left it. The +corner she left folded was in the same upper left corner that it was always in. +She stretched and laid down in the bed. Her mind drifted back to a warning that +her mother had given her: "If you see signs of the awakening, hide your hands. +They can't find you if they never see your hands glow. If it happens in public, +you're on your own. Lie if you must." + +Alicia curled up in her cot and held her hands out in front of her face. Her +hands were immaculate, which was odd given all of the training. One of her claws +had gotten scuffed in the battle. She grabbed a nail file from her bag and +started sanding it down. + +Tistus walked over by Alicia and knelt down next to her, purring. Alicia purred +back and smiled. "Good work out there. I don't entirely know how that worked +out, but you were catalytic to it. Thank you." Tistus smiled back. + +"I was just doing what felt right. How did Belsa react?" + +"Oh she yelled at us both, slow clapped too. Zekas seemed to take it well +though." + +Tistus grinned more. + +"That sea-sucker needs to get taken down a notch sometimes." + +"Maybe, it's getting late though. Let's rest for tomorrow. We've got green team +tomorrow. The Chees are on offense." + +"Good point. Night 'leesh." + +"Night 'tus." + +Tistus headed to his nearby cot and curled up under the blanket. Alicia could +hear him start to snore almost instantly. Her mom was never able to fix that +issue. + +Alicia looked back at her hands again and stared deep into them. _Am I a mage?_ +she thought, _That can't be. My skills lie in the battlefield. This can't be +happening to me. I'll get expelled. I'll have to go back to that town. I'll lose +Tistus. I--_ + +Alicia caught that she was caught in an anxiety spiral and took a deep breathe +like her mom had shown her. Deep breath in for a count of four, hold for a count +of four, out for a count of four, hold for a count of four. Then repeat. Focus +on the Now, not the Then. In, hold, out, hold. Pause to savor the moment that's +happening, not the moment that's not happened yet. Deep, calm breaths. + +After a few moments, the panic subsided and Alicia was left laying on her cot +staring at the ceiling. _I miss you mom and dad_ she thought to herself before +the tiredness caught up with her. + +Alicia was asleep. diff --git a/src/zz_end/dictionary.md b/src/zz_end/dictionary.md index 39d285c..f39db26 100644 --- a/src/zz_end/dictionary.md +++ b/src/zz_end/dictionary.md @@ -1,7 +1,16 @@ ## Dictionary -This list of words will help you +This list of words will help you understand any terms that were left unchanged +from their original incarnations. + +#### Bladecraft + +Swordfighting, physical martial arts, archery, and similar such things. #### Snep Snow Leopard. + +#### Spellcraft + +Magic via either raw intent or words of power.