Cross-posted on my MySpace blog.
A couple of days ago I posted a brief scene from my small collection of personally written fiction. Here are two more with a different character: Happy Slaves and Seeds of Disillusionment. This character is rather more complex than the previous one, so a bit of background information may be in order though the following brief introduction leaves out a lot of juicy details and twists. I don’t want to give any spoilers!
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Shara was born under a tyrannical regime. The level of technology for the world-setting is largely between medieval and early Renaissance. She was the daughter of a merchant. A politically well-connected rival used the regime to ruin his business. Before long she was orphaned and spent several years on the streets before being taken in by the leader of a burgeoning revolutionary movement. She was given a good classical education and trained to be a guerrilla leader, spy, and assassin.
Now, these separate scenes, like the scene from my previous post, were written for online, free form, interactive roleplaying on AOL. Seeds of Disillusionment is unfortunately missing the scenes written by the player of the other character, Legion, (long story there), but you should be able to get the gist of what is going on. In these scenes, Shara is far from her original homeland, having found (or so she thought) a temporary home away from home in the land of Atheria. Legion is the king of Atheria. Shara admired and, to some degree, hero-worshipped Legion, for as a king and a man he seemed so different from rulers she was familiar with. Legion actually seemed to personify the noble knight-paladin, and actually seemed to genuinely care for his people. He had offered her the command of his body guards. She had accepted and for the previous few months been working happily in Atheria for him. All of this “actually seemed” stuff is not to say that he actually didn’t, but…you’ll see.
The actual events portrayed and the land of Atheria (which is not my invention) will not be retained in any future writings of mine. But the scenes should serve as a taste of some of my first attempts at writing fiction, and of a character that you will hopefully see again.
See also my first blog post.
Geoffrey is an Aristotelian-Libertarian political philosopher, writer, editor, and web designer. He is the founder of the