LUST

LUST

7 deadly sings project continues

Spoilers and meta for The Wizard, the Witch and the Wild One ep12, Prisoner's Dilemma

There are two obvious ways to create drama from the starting point of a mentor character saying "just wait a little longer, I'm coming to fix everything":

The main characters refuse to wait and pop off without the mentor – they have to solve the problem without the mentor's help, and the mentor will be mad when they arrive! DRAMA!

The main characters dutifully wait, but the mentor never arrives – waylaid or even killed en route. The main characters have to face something that took out the mentor! DRAMA!

Which is not to say those are the only possible outcomes, but is to say that, as soon as Steel started reassuring the gang that she'd handle everything – free Naram, punish Morrow, help Ame with the curse, train Eursulon in the sword, especially help Eursulon with the sword – I got a lil jolt of The Fear. (one fear) There's no way they get the deus ex machina easy win on all those points, I thought. Something has to happen to Steel instead.

Which is also to say that Steel isn't allowed to be mad at Eursulon for popping off, because from a metanarrative standpoint he might have saved her life by doing that.

Scenes I am challenging myself to write today:

Trying to have a conversation with somebody who is only interested in selling you something

Increasingly desperate voice notes to the person you said things to last night in bed that you realised in the morning you should not have said

Part 2 is here:

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Maybe with a bigger sample of Autumn Wray Benjamin’s handwriting, Callum would be able to decipher it, but with only this one scribble to go on, his best guesses were ’high element’ or ‘knife divert’, and they weren’t confident guesses.

I'm definitely going to kick myself later when I have to pay this off. But that's the fun of serial fiction! Right? I don't know yet, it's my first time trying it!

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I've seen them do a version of this song live where he decides to be a mung bean monger, but I don't know if that one's ever been recorded