Q is for Questioning

Once I was called Magdalene. Once I was many things, convinced I was a woman of conviction, before my students were taken from me. Seeing what Stephen has become, Kyra undertaking A Suitor’s Challenge for his sake, I’m no longer sure what I believe. All certainty has become questions, hence I became Questioning. I’m no longer sure who or what I am. My questioning threatens to distabalize Ouroborous, changing it into something entirely different. Perhaps Ouroborous will evolve into something beyond the Serpent’s coils? Not even She can see. All I know is that I wish to protect the children who grew up to pawns in a game of love, magic, and power. If Dragon or Serpent must be slain to save them, I shall become a unicorn, goring both with my horn, and trampling them under my hooves.

P is for Peter

I had such a dramatic part, cut short, in the original draft of Stealing Myself From Shadows, a part which never paid off.

Of course I was revised. I appeared prominently in other Tales of the Navel, like Unwilling to Be Yours, and Be My Valentine…Snack. You can catch a whiff of my disastrous love affairs, and equally fatal romantic intentions from these titles, can’t you? Don’t leave me like this, Christopher. Don’t spend all your attention upon your Perfect Prick Damian Ashelocke. My love scares you, but it’s no less than his. If anything, it’s greater. The scribbler has plans, potentially pivotal plans for me, who’ve been neglected for too long. Just wait and see, my sweet, just what I can become.

O is for Oleander

I am the poisonous flower that blooms within Thomas’s foul heart, growing within Seraphix’s radiance. I am the wish he cannot suppress, no matter how much he pushes me away, striking out at the small, the furry, the beautiful, or the unexplicable. A Godling for Your Thoughts? I am the godling Thomas dreams of, his link to Seraphix, no matter how much he might deny me. Let him cringe in fear. I am coming. Look for me in Tales of the Navel, which bubble up in inspirationcauldron.wordpress.com, leading to novels, if the scribbler gets her stories together. Urge her to do so, if you are interested.

N is for Nevalyn

I am the serpent that devours the world. I become the world, yet I still hunger for my earthy flesh. I am a woman who dared to devour the serpent and befriend monsters. I tear down corrupt civilizations ruled by corrupt monarchs daring to call themselves good and me evil. I am the voice that whispers to all of my children, the voice they cannot resist. I am more than A Suitor’s Challenge or Trouble at Caerac Keep. I am the beating heart of Ouroborous; eternal and insatiable. I am Nevalyn. Seek me out and face me, if you dare.

M is for Melyssa

I was a repressed sister of an obsolete order, worshipping a God of Balance. I was a seductive enchantress, drinking deep of my lovers’s creative energy.

Aspects of me remain of those previous incarnations, but I am neither. I became the daughter of Duessa Ashelocke, a deviant arachnocrat, whose passions had no place in my mother’s Gardens. I hungered for more than its blossoms. My hunger led me to Seraphix.

What do I mean? See what tales bubble up at inspirationcauldron.wordpress.com and find out.

L is for 'Lyssa

Once I was the leanhaun lover, bringing a slow and sensual death to the lady knight reborn as a mad childling in a Changeling: The Dreaming roleplaying campaign. I became something different in Tales of the Navel; the dark dream, the repressed passion, the embodiment of Melyssa Ashelocke’s wish; just as Sister Mel was her repressed shell. These aspects emerged from the shattered failure of an arachnocrat Melyssa didn’t want to be, Duessa’s disappointment of a daughter. You might say I’m the inspiration for giving into desires which dared not utter their names in the Gardens, the creature Mel longs to be, linked to Seraphix. You might say Seraphix gave birth to both Mel and I from the wreck that was Melyssa Ashelocke.

Whatever do I mean? Watch for our names in Tales of the Navel, which bubble at inspirationcauldron.wordpress.com and find out.

K is for Kevin

Originally just a side character, pouring drinks at the Tipsy Hedgehog in Trouble at Caerac Keep, Cauldron Tales here and inspirationcauldron.wordpress.com; my mystery and significance has grown, taking on a subplot of its own. Just what is that? You may not have to wait for Trouble at Caerac Keep to find out. Just wait and watch for what bubbles here or at the other Cauldron.