I am the dust and the ashes of the temple of the Holy Ghost, and what marble is so precious?
โJohn Donne.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
โT. S. Eliot.
But my day stays crowded with tiny stars
Like spangled dust rising from collapsed heaven.
โHarry Mathews.
Name Demian โDustyโ...
Spooky stuff. It would be neat to explore precisely how these creatures reproduceโor transmit their nature to othersโ, or why antagonistic substances (e.g. silver) affect them as such.
I think that would be interesting, perhaps more grounded as opposed to fantastical, but that also takes away the ability to hand-wave away certain ideasโor, at the very least, require a sort of scientific explanation for everything. I think it would still be great though.
Potential prevention of a cataclysm. . . in perhaps the worst department. Does that leave her exasperated? Or does she have a hint of what it is that may come to be?โand unable to process that information clearly. . .
Sounds excellent. So she is still struggling with the idea of being caged as such? That should make for some interesting internal conflict, perhaps something Byronic. So how did they end up in this particular branch?
A lot of writers do like to take it fast, but I'm more comfortable at a slower paceโa โlingeringโ type, if you will. Do you have any ideas what you will open the story with? Or, at least, as regards the first part of the narrative?
Sounds like a bureaucratic mess indeed. I can already see...
Thank you for answering. I'm happy to hear that. I enjoy writing social relationships and dialogue more than action scenes, so that's a plus for me. So I'm assuming the bulk of the narrative centers around investigations, bureaucratic administration (in the mode of Kafka, that is, infuriating...
@haruspex.
A few questions. What will the narrative be like?โmore โsedateโ (perhaps character-driven, or character-centered) or an action-fest? Also, I may have missed something in the interest check, but what is the specific role of this government branch? Must all the characters be actively...