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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Today I Visited Elysia

Finally. After days of recovery, I finally managed to write. Nothing brilliant, I assure you, but even 200 or so jumbled words is better than none. And what I wrote...oh, how I love the dark things I'm delving into with dear Vlad, the sordid places I'm leading him.

Elysia is the vampire realm. And Vlad has just stepped into an area he knows exactly zilch about. His father, Tomas, had filled Vlad's head with false visions of Elysia before his death--something that has put our young hero at an extreme disadvantage. But darkness and evil and all things overlordish aren't always presented in black hoods, shadows and a flash of fangs. Sometimes it can be as simple as touching your hand to a hidden glyph in an elevator and pressing the newly revealed buttons ~those other buttons...the ones that lead you to places you shouldn't tread unless you're sporting a pair of genuine fangs~. Sometimes evil lurks in the most unlikely of places. And sometimes...sometimes what you thought was evil was anything but.

But enough cryptic goodies for now. Back to Elysia and the boy I left there.

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