I just wanted to share the intro to a story I just started. Not sure if I want to go full novella or just keep it a short installment in a potential series... Any thoughts, critiques, and suggestions are more than welcome and appreciated!
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The moon was incredible that night… enormous and full. It shone brightly through my window—brighter than I had seen it in years. But the pulsing blue glow that lit up my room was even more radiant. It would shine brilliantly, linger for a few moments, and then fade away into darkness. It came and went casting shadows in every direction. It would do this for hours, almost like some kind of psychedelic strobe light stuck in slow motion. Every night it was the same. And every night I would lay there staring at the ceiling, watching this electric blue glow pulse steady and true. And yet… something was different tonight. It had always shone more brightly during a full moon, but something about this night—this particular full moon—was different. The effervescent blue glimmer grew stronger, brighter and steadily increasing in intensity and speed. That’s when it happened. It felt like time had suddenly screeched to a violent halt. My muscles tightened, my breath quickened and my ears twitched in every direction as my surroundings fell silent. My room dissolved into darkness as a thunderous rhythm began to hum in the distance. It sounded like the drums of an ancient army. As the army marched closer, the beating of their drums grew louder and louder until it filled every corner of my mind. It was impossible to even think. Suddenly, I felt a painful surge of heat rushing through my veins like some sort of electricity. The heat raced all over my body then back into my chest. The drums still roared relentlessly. I lurched upward from my pillow, sitting up swiftly as my white sheets fell away from me. I grabbed my chest to catch my breath and realized I wasn’t hearing drums… it was the sound of my heart pounding beneath my chest and echoing in my mind. I closed my eyes and tried to take a breath. My chest lifted slowly as my lungs filled with the stale frigid air. After what seemed like hours frozen in a timeless abyss, the image of my room descended quickly all around me in a familiar shade of blue. My head felt heavy, the air was brisk and I was more than a little disoriented. I looked down at my chest, and felt an unexpected warmth. The alluring heat and radiant blue light both emanating directly from my paw. I held my paw in front of me and stared in awe. It was the mark of the Erabeshi Monotachi… the chosen ones.
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