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Cammie's avatar

I LOVED the beginning of this. Hearing about all the architecture and the beauty of the environment Lucrezia built. Her unbridled pride in it. And of course, all the little ways she exerts control and tinkers the nation to her liking (hello, please sponsor me *_*) and the little cheeky aside about Anouk being happy to preach what he doesn't practice xDDDD. Dana was a nice little enigma to slowly unravel, what with her youthfulness, her simpering affection for Lu and then of course her downfall that sprouts the root of her hatred and desire for vengeance. That Lu is so DISGUSTAD that she would ever think of touching a human male and then almost ruined everything by letting the closely guarded secret of conversion come out!! Anyway this was a lovely little teaser you gave us and I'm hoping the completed version will come soon so I can give a full overview of my thoughts.

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I wrote the first section in one sitting because I was having SO much fun describing the Orchid.

With a bit more maturity and experience on his back, Anouk could write the vampirito equivalent to Ida Tarbell’s book, that’s all I’ll say xD. I predict he’s going to be a fun token male character to write for me lol.

I enjoyed showing a bit of this younger Dana; the one in the proper story is 50+ years older (just in time for the next election!) and I wanted to plant the seeds for someone who would both make SUCH an egregious mistake in youth, but who could eventually grow into an appropriately dangerous opponent.

I’m really glad to hear you liked this teaser! I’ll continue to work in UE, & probably share at least some excerpts in upcoming newsletters ^-^

PS: Lucretia would love sponsoring you. You’d just have to give her a tiny bit of your blood from time to time but honestly, in Elysium, this is probably the best case scenario you could land yourself in xD

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