Snippet Saturday!

[agilebrit]

Because I'm bored, and Ben is feeling neglected. Setup? You no can haz. Context is for the weak.

Ben chose that moment to come down the stairs, dressed in a clean pair of jeans and a t-shirt, scrubbing his hand through his unruly hair. "No, I'm okay." He sat on the floor by Janni's raised feet, which made Alex frown. Usually Ben sat beside his wife, not on the rug.

"You've been run through twice with a silver sword, Master Ben," Chambliss said. "And ripped a man to shreds with, apparently, your bare hands. I'd venture to say that you're far from 'okay.'"

"I've been through worse," Ben said, resting his forehead on Janni's knee.

"Just because you've been through worse in the past doesn't mean that this event wasn't also traumatizing," Chambliss pointed out before Alex could.

"It's not the event itself. It's that I can't actually remember it that's got me freaking." The line of his shoulders told everyone in the room how tense Ben was. "I should remember something like that."

"It is possible, Master Ben, that your mind has become so overloaded with trauma that it's hiding things from you so you don't have to deal with them."

"Well, make it stop." Ben didn't lift his head. "Because that's freaking me out more."

Poor puppy.

Comments

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

I like his sitting at Janni's feet as a comfort thing. It screams "take care of me."

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

And that's not something he can actually say, the poor little sod.

Seriously, I've beaten him so hard in this thing that I don't think anyone could realistically get up from it. Which is why I'm probably going to abandon it. Woe.

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

Don't abandon it! Back up if you need to but don't abandon it.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Well. I'm not necessarily abandoning it completely. But if the first novel doesn't sell, then there's no sense in finishing this one, because it's in no way a standalone and can't be made into one. I learned a lot by writing it, so it wasn't a waste of time by any means--and if the first one sells, then I'll definitely come back to it. But it's as back-burnered as it can possibly be right now while I write stuff that has an actual possibility of actually selling.

I hate the vagaries of this business.