I had trouble with this section because there is a fine line when a character goes through lessons in a story. On one hand it’s a fine time to explain the workings of the world through whatever the character happens to be learning, and on the other hand you can end up with an Eragon situation where half of your book is taken up by horribly dull lessons while the brother steals the interest of the reader out on his legendary adventure. >.>

In this case I went for the minamilist approach. As such the section is really short and very little about rithae is explained to the reader. This is mostly because I didn’t want this section to be a horribly long info dump. The information about rithae that I skipped will be explained as Rayne uses it in the next several chapters. (At least that’s the plan.) Hopefully that spreads out the information well. Who knows. I’m making this up as I go…

One can only imagine what a nightmare raising Rayne would have been. She was quite the naughty child,  talking back, staying out late, getting in trouble with the law (on the rare occasion she got caught) drinking, doing drugs. Of course her grades were pristine without even trying, so there was only so much complaining her teachers could do.

No surprise she turned into such an adult.

Well that’s the way to keep people coming back for more. You can’t just keep piling on questions and never answer them. Then people just get frustrated. Methinks I should add Reina to the list of characters now that it’s a bit more obvious that she’s important.

My gosh Rayne, why did you do it?

Since my mind runs every which way, I often have ideas for scenes or other such information that doesn’t necessarily fit into the story as it’s flowing. Part of that could be a lack of skill, but I digress. I wrote a newspaper article that compliments the story where it is right now. In the future I may add in other little ‘shorts’ as I call them that are separate from the story and just add in some extra details.

In the last wordpress upgrade, they changed the entire layout of the admin pages, something they seem fond of doing every now and again. As such the link to my pending comments…well it just was out of the way. So there were tons of comments that were not approved until now. I appreciate all such comments (even ones pointing out my mistakes), and I’m sorry for the delay in their being shown.

That being said, I’m also sorry about the delay for this post. I know I said last Monday, but I didn’t have internet back until this past Thursday and even then everything was still pretty untidy. But here’s the next section. Hope you enjoy.

While I meant for this space to be used as notes for the story, my moving is intruppting updates, so I’m putting it here. The move is this weekend and I’m not finished packing, so I’m just going to take this week and next week off for a reasonable buffer. I’ll post again on March 2nd.

Enjoy the quick updates. I already have most of this written, so it just needs tweaks and grammar check to be ready.

I had a lot more description of Dregin Track planned out, but it seemed too much like just an info dump, so it got left out. As for Dregin himself, he is a self-made millionaire. He started out with nothing, as a mercenary. He broke into gambling as a bookie for some of the other smaller tracks around the planet and eventually learned enough to open his own track. While the others kept their tracks in the slums to keep the EP from interfering, Dregin welcomed the GP, using them as his track’s guard until he was able to form one of his own. The EP presence kept the other track owners from being able to do much more than a bit of vandalism and throwing out death threats. And while everyone on the planet knows Dregin’s track isn’t exactly following the letter of the law, the EP have still found, or at least reported, no evidence that can shut him down.