inverarity | AQATSA: Chapter Thirty-Seven

Did the creature attack Larry and Alexandra when Larry stepped over the wards? Or were they already outside the wards to begin with?
Looking forward to Sunday.

whoa! I didn't expect her to shake off her Nemesis so quickly and so easily. Did it really go to the Generous Ones? And if so, does it now free her of her Gees? And do the Generous Ones Appreciate such a troublesome gift? Will it satisfy Death? Or will it scamper around the Lands Below until Alex comes to visit, and then pursue her once again? And … poor Larry.

And I still don't get why John wants to kill Alexandra, though next chapter may give us a clue.

Anyway, upon continuing to reread the series searching for clues, I am increasingly convinced Inverarity is setting Alexandra up to fight a cosmic struggle. In AQ2, we have the following scene:

“Okay, Mr. Know-it-all. So what is corn doing in the Lands Below?”
“Dying,” whispered a sad voice.
Maximilian and Alexandra both blinked, and looked at each other.
“So cold,” whispered another voice.
“So dark,” whispered a third. And then a chorus of voices drifted up to them, in the still air.
“Our father the sun,
our mother the moon,
our brother the wind,
oh, how we miss them!
We fell through a crack,
and here the stones are our brothers,
snakes and scorpions our sisters.
We lonely and forgotten ones.”
Their sad lament filled the air. Alexandra found herself feeling sorry for the dying plants.
Maximilian stood up. “Come on. We'd best not meddle with what we don't understand.”
The voices of the corn plants continued chanting, dirge-like:
“Where is the sun? Not here.
Where is the moon? Not here.
Where is the wind? Not here.
Only we are here.
We lonely and forgotten ones.”
“Can't we... do something?” she asked.
Maximilian shook his head. “We can't help them, Alexandra.”
“How do you know? Maybe they can help us!” She knelt next to one of the wilted plants.
“What do you need?” she asked.
There was a pause in their chanting, and then a tiny voice said, “Bring us the sun.”
“Bring us the wind,” whispered another.
“Tell our father we are here.”
“He will crack the earth and split the sky!”

Is this perhaps foreshadowing that Alex will call on the Sun and the Moon - are they among the Stars Above? - to fight Death, so that the Deathly Regiment becomes obsolete?

--Geneva

WOW!!!

Neatly done with the Charon penny and so I thought it was over and then ...

I like how Alex is growing up. And I like how Larry came back when he thought the giant snake would attack her. Love or hate, that couple has chemistry.

Inverarity, I really like your writing, but sometimes it's a bit hard for me to wait for the next chapter!
I can't even imagine what's going to happen now. Will he send her to the elves? Will Abraham save her? Will Grimm find out?

Monday never seemed so far away...

(p.s. so I joined livejournal, and you're on "my friends" page, but how do I get an email when you post?)

You forgot to give Larry a cigarette holder. Smoking a regular cigarette is all bad boy, James Dean and cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuo8JEYeqZE

you need a cigarette HOLDER to betoken evil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cFzABv0xMU Time 1'30"

He lives with the Generous Ones, too, after all... I mean, not even a warning or a single thought about it!

I guess it would be in character for Alex to forget all about that, though. I just hope he doesn't get hurt because of her plan, necessary as it was.

HOLY SCHNIIIKEEESSSS!!!! I feel like I just came to a screeching halt by the time I hit the last few sentences!!! Well then...THAT'S how JM got the murder of crows to get Alex at the invisible bridge in the beginning....duuude that was genius!!! I'm SOOOOO stoaked that Alex won't have to die after all, since she made mummy thingee go in her place!!! That was so awesome that she had that planned just in case.....buuuut, the ending is a bit disturbing. Wonder if the dean or anyone knows what's up...and if they do....they're probably diffusing the crow thing....ooooooooo boy.....MAAAAAN what a chappie!!! I practically scared one of my girls awake from her nap when I finished this chapter....brilliant writing Inverarity!!!

Yup, that was a hell of a thing.

~DarkSov

I guess Alex might be able to get the grade for her original 'catch Manuelito' project after all. I don't think she has done any impressive work with the Hags project.

You do know that you're a terribly mean teaser, don't you. What. A. Cliffhanger. Is it monday yet???

Great writing, as always. Can't imagine what's next... at all...

Gwen

While my latest comment awaits Inverarity's approval I finally made an account myself to do my posting. From now on all the anonymous Gwen comments can be filed under Dutch Ostrich. :)

Yeah, totally. This is now my new handle.

~DarkSov

Such an intriguing way for Alex to get out of her gift...if it works out. Also interesting that JM chooses to physically punch Alex instead of casting a spell. He actually comes off more enraged this way. With the public crows attacking students and Larry's injury (can fingers be magically attached?), Alex's reputation is really going to blow up (kinda deservedly). I do think she could have tried talking with adults more before taking these actions herself but I do want a big reckoning/shocking scene where the adults realize how involved/awesome Alex is. She is Named by the Stars Above, people!

Another day of restless checking in and out... Hopig against hope that inverarity has pity on us.

How the hell is Alexandra goimg to save herself from this?! And if not Alex, then who? Who can find her and save her from John...

Tomorrow is only a day away... *sighs*

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The coming cosmic struggle of Alexandra

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2nd to last chapter

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Um, what about Quimley?

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