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That Don’t Impress Me Much

High Fantasy/Second World, Magical Companion Sentients, War, Camp NaNoWriMo 2011

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Maybelle Smith is a small town weaver’s daughter on the cusp of graduation. She’s got her mind on her fiancé, her apprenticeship as a baker, and a move to the big city. Her future is finally living up to her dreams.

Foxhawks are born to partner with a specific human and Baron has waited the three years since his hatching with growing anticipation of that event. He can see down the future probability trees and things look brighter than he dared hoped for.

Golden foxhawks are born for war and there’s an egg in the nests at Pine Reach that could spell the end of the long peace between the three kingdoms. They will have three years to prepare, but after that, not even the foxhawks can see what happens next.

And then things go horribly, horribly wrong.

NOTE: This is the first draft of a story, so it will most likely contain plot holes, retcons, and other inconsistencies. I’ll come back and fix things once the story (or arc) is complete!

Genre: Second-world/High Fantasy
Universe: Foxhawk’verse
Rating/Warnings: PG-13, Cursing, Violence, & Death
Total Posted Wordcount:  50k-ish (Rough Draft)

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This is still very much an ugly rough draft, but a few folks have asked to read it in its horribly unkempt form.

Table of Contents

Book I : That Which Comes Before

  1. Quiet Morning Baking – 879 words
  2. It’s Almost Hatching Day! – 632 words
  3. Aaron’s Letters – 886 words
  4. Graduation Day – 454 words
  5. And Thus the Future Dies – 515 words
  6. Other Fish in the Sea – 252 words
  7. Hatching Day at Pine Reach – 636 words
  8. The Great Spouse Hunt – 247 words
  9. Hatching Caverns – 677 words
  10. The Fledglings Arrive – 348 words
  11. Of Hopes and Futures – 420 words
  12. Things Get Better – 457 words
  13. Farris vs. Baron – 350 words
  14. Future Trees and Possibilities – 416 words
  15. And lo, They Fight! – 729 words
  16. The First Night – 420 words
  17. Try Try Again – 440 words
  18. No Future Trees – 60 words
  19. The Clichéd Hatching is Upon Us! – 304 words
  20. Baron Watching Hatching – 334 words
  21. May Watches the Hatching – 160 words
  22. Rescue! – 209 words
  23. Choices – 392 words

Book II : What Comes After

  1. The Aftermath – 677 words
  2. Dinner at the Hatching – 415 words
  3. On The Road Again – 556 words
  4. Being Chosen vs. Choosing – 582 words
  5. Welcome to Oak Grove – 718 words
  6. Welcome to the Academy – 472 words
  7. Shunning – 329 words
  8. Facing the Music – 1,531 words
  9. This Was Not The Plan – 960 words
  10. What Not to Wear – 369 words
  11. Letters Home – 315 words
  12. And Now We Fly – 292 words
  13. Delayed Confrontations – 165 words
  14. School Daze – 319 words
  15. Make New Friends – 363 words
  16. The New Normal – 112 words

Book III : The Coming Storm

  1. Graduation Day – 370 words
  2. Death From Above! – 668 words
  3. After The Storm – 626 words
  4. Cold, Hungry, Tired – 586 words
  5. After The Rain – 453 words
  6. Not According To Plan – 468 words
  7. The Enemy Unknown – 557 words
  8. Softpaw and Claire – 414 words
  9. The Second Storm – 528 words
  10. Small Magic – 466 words
  11. Cavalry Has Arrived – 364 words

Book IV: The Void of the Sea

  1. Two Beaches and the Blue Ships
  2. Going Home Again
  3. Now What
  4. It’s A Trap
  5. Now What (Take 2)
  6. Of Mice and Men
  7. On The Road to Nowhere
  8. Incoming Adventurers
  9. Oaths of No Consequence
  10. Mum’s The Word
  11. From Here to There
  12. Escape! – 888 words
  13. Not the Plan
  14. War is Upon Us
  15. It’s Just Water
  16. The Enemy is Us
  17. We Have Ways of Making You Talk
  18. The Storm
  19. Cavalry Redux

Book V : Seek the Oracle

  1. More Like Me
  2. Chasing Folly
  3. Kicking You When You’re Down
  4. Flight and Fight
  5. Into the Wastes
  6. There is A Hole In The Bottom of the Sea
  7. Alice Through The Looking Lake
  8. I Hunger
  9. I Make No Promises – 464 words
  10. From the Mouth of Snakes – 361 words
  11. We Have a Plan – 451 words
  12. Change is Good – 240 words
  13. And Back to the Beach – 278 words

Book VI: Rule Number One, There Are No Rules

  1. A Quiet Night – 550 words
  2. Ultimatums and Breaking the Rules – 558 words
  3. An End to the War – 292 words
  4. The Aftermath of the War – 270 words

Book VII : At War With God

  1. We Need to Talk – 201 words
  2. Meet the Enemy and He Is Us – 719 words
  3. But Why? – 361 words
  4. Channel Are As Channels Do – 422 words

Afterword : Happily Ever After

  1. The First Hatching – 221 words

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