Part 3! Developer's Thoughts

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 Spoilers below: 

Creating this chapter is one of my favorite parts of the story insofar. I loved writing this. Admittedly this is kinda a weird chapter to me chronologically because I know certain things the characters don't yet, but I forgot they don't know what they know so like I had to keep reminding myself that no one knows until now that the Ethereal King is part of the Fangs of Liberty/FOL. 

I wanted an almost horror-like sentiment with this chapter. Count Sylva doesn't even start off as that suspicious, but you can already see Cyras being a step ahead. 

(Cyras sniffed a couple of times and glared. She said, "So, Sylva—")

("No, I insist," Count Sylva said, just a bit too quickly.) 

Cyras, at this point, already smells the Wilder on Count Sylva. 

I also liked this build-up:

(The fox scanned the room. Everything smelled okay. In fact, everything was pretty fresh and vibrant and detergented, and even the mirror in the recess of the room was clean and clear and focused on nothing in particular. The nightstands had carved, vine-like legs and were topped with a complementary candy bowl and glasses of pure water. The corners of the ceilings were clean and devoid of cobwebs and security cameras. The window, that pointed away from the courtyard where the portal was, instead focused on the stars glittering around the moon.) 

If you notice, what is going on is that Cyras is slowly scanning each part of the room suspiciously. That's why I added a random "and security cameras" to inch that something's not right and Cyras' alarms are running on high alert. 

Coincidentally, I was listening to Spongebob music and a scare chord hit while I was editing this part. 

Some notes about the structure of the castle: The castle is four walls. The residential rooms are in the western wing, they dined in the southern wing. The garden shed was hanging out about the western wing, and that's where the lawn is. The courtyard is in between the walls while the shed is beyond the walls, outside the main castle. That's typically how castles look. So that's where they have to go through the walls into the courtyard. 

Usually, I'd explain in story, but I figure that was said well enough, or implied well enough. I just wanted to get some castle architecture notes out of the way for those wondering. This isn't for convenience. 

Anyway, let's hope next chapter comes out soon.

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