My Birthday!

I had an awesome birthday party this month. It was Harry Potter themed birthday party and I had a lot of fun preparing it. I’m going to break down this post into sections:

1. Invitations
2. Daigon Alley
3. Sorting Ceremony
4. Divination Class
5. Astronomy Class
6. Charms Class
7. Potions Class
8. Honeydukes
9. End of Year Feast

Okay, so first, Invitations! I decided to go with the usual Hogwarts Letter invitation. 

I tried to make the Invitations as close to real Hogwarts letters as I could. First I found the Hogwarts emblem and put it at the top of each paper. Then I wrote a message that sounded sort of like the real letter and I added the information about when and where people should go for the party. Then I changed all of it to a Hogwarts looking font. In the letter I included a second sheet that listed all the equipment that they would buy at Daigon Alley and also a small permission slip to go to Hogsmeade. I also mentioned how they should come dressed up if they wanted too. 
After printing everything out I put them in brown envelopes that I had found at a nearby stationary store and taped then closed with a paper Hogwarts seal that I had also printed. I hand delivered them so I could write the whole “cupboard under the stairs” address for fun.

Here’s a picture of a finished letter:

When everyone came on the day I gave them all 9 and 3/4 tickets and told them to keep them safe. Then I lead them to the room that I had set up for Daigon Alley. There were 4 places that we went to, first was Gringotts where we got our money:

I printed the sign and I bought the galleons (gold pirate coins) from a party store near where I live. I put 5 galleons in each little bag.

After that we went to Ollivanders to get our wands.

The wands are just chopsticks I got from the 100¥ store (Basically like the Dollar Store). The chopsticks were carved in a way that made them wand like though. I found the sign by looking up “Ollivanders wand shop logo” on google images.

My sister helped with the “Wand choosing the wizard” thing. She used her iPod and had it make different sound effects when the people waved the wands. If is was a positive sound then the wand chose them, if it was negative, then that wasn’t the right wand. It was hilarious when someone waved their wand and there’d be a barking sound or when one of the wands made the Sci-Fi sound effect. Once the wand had chosen you then you paid one galleon for it.

It was fun, anyway on to the next store (which I made up because I didn’t want to do both Apocrathy and Flourish and Blotts, so I combined them and made “Wizarding Supplies Inc.”

I made the sign myself and I also made the little card things above. At the store there was “Assorted Potion ingredients” and “The Standard Book of Potions and Spells”.

The Assorted Potion Ingredients were just a bunch of small candies and the Standard Book of Potions and Spells was just a notebook with the potions and spells. I had to hand write everything so I only put 2 potions and 2 spells (Antidote to Common Poisons, Fire Resistance Potion, Disarming Charm, and the Shield Charm). I also added a little extra potion page to each book (sort of like in the movies when they open a book and an extra old worn page that shouldn’t be there falls out. On that extra page I put a more advanced potion (Like the Polyjuice Potion, or the Draught of the Living Death) I made a different one for everyone and slipped them in the books. 

To make the extra pages I just cut a page from the notebooks then I used tea to stain them and make them look old. After that I wrote the potion instructions on it and crinkled them up to further the aged look.

I got the potion instructions from the Harry Potter Wiki, but then I altered them a bit to fit the candy ingredients that I had. The Book and the Potion ingredients together cost 1 galleon.

Alright, on to the next store, which was the Magical Menagerie. I couldn’t find the real logo so I had to make one myself.

I used stuffed animals from around the house for the pets. I was able to find a brown owl, a snowy owl, a frog (not really a toad, but closest I could get), several white cats and one tabby cat. Each pet cost one galleon.

That was the last store and so we went on to Platform 9 and 3/4. For the platform I just hung up a 9 and 3/4 sign on the door. I had everyone stand in the hallway near the door and I collected the tickets that I had handed out earlier. Once that was done I lead them to the dining room where I had set up the great hall. 

That’s when we did the sorting ceremony. First I sang one of the sorting hat's song and then I started calling people up one at a time. I would place an old looking witch hat on their heads and they would pull a small slip of paper from a bag that I offered them. They were sorted into whichever house emblem was on their paper. As soon as they were sorted I would direct them to which part of the table they were to sit at. The sorting was a fun activity, but it also was a way of sorting people into teams for the games later on. Just so you know I was sorted into Hufflepuff.

As soon as everyone was sorted, I explained the point system.

Each class was going to be a game and the winning team of each game got 10 points, second place got 5, and third place got 3. I would keep track by drawing them onto the above hourglasses (I didn’t take this picture till the end of the party, originally the hourglasses didn’t have the bottom jewel circles in them. And you can also see that Ravenclaw won. Yay! oops I gave that away, oh well.)

After that the first class began! The first class was Divination and it was pretty simple. We went over what different colors signify (red=courage, green=power, blue= wisdom, and yellow=luck) Then I brought out a "magical fortune telling soda". 

I had put a little bit of dry food coloring into paper cups and covered them with ice before the party. Then I brought them out now and gave people the cups, then I poured the clear "Magic soda" into their cups and the soda changed color before their eyes! The soda turned to one of the four colors I talked about earlier and so everyone got to see what was coming in their future based off what color the soda was.

After Divination class was Astronomy. I had hidden planets and moons all around the room, and each team had to search and find as many planets as they could. When all the planets were found people counted how many they got. The winner was Ravenclaw with 7 planets, 2nd place was Gryffindor with 2 planets, and third was Slytherin with one. I drew the points on the hourglasses and we moved on.

The next class was Charms class. I handed out a sheet of Latin terms and their meanings to each team and told them that they needed to invent their own spell. In ten minutes they needed to share what their spell was and what it did. The team with the spell I liked the best would win.

It was pretty interesting to see what people came up with. Gryffindor made a spell that would erase memories, Slytherin made a spell that would make you have wings and be able to fly, Ravenclaw made a time traveling spell, and Hufflepuff made a spell that would slow down the thought process in an opponent making it hard for them to think.

The winner was Hufflepuff, then Ravenclaw, then Slytherin.

After Charms was Potions! This was the class that people had the most fun with. 

I was so tired on the day of the party that I didn’t get a picture of everything when they were in the cool jars and potion vials, but above is a picture of all the ingredients I got. 

1. The gummy worms were put in a jar and labeled “Earth Worms”
2. The Haribo peach candies were put in a tray thing and labeled “Fire Roots”. 
3. The Gummy frogs were “Dried Frogs”, 
4. The Sour green apple spaghetti strings were “Gillyweed Vines”, 
5. The chocolate covered peanuts were “Bezoars”, 
6. The ginger ale was “Mandrake Essence”, 
7. The cranberry juice was “Salamander blood”, 
8. The Fanta Grape was “Aconite Fluid”, 
9. The orange juice was “Flobberworm mucus”, 
10. And the C.C. Lemon (fizzy lemonade soda) was “Billywig Sting Slime”. 

I also combined orange juice with the C.C. Lemon in a tiny jar to be “Felix Felicis” (luck potion) I was going to give it to the team with the best potion (get the reference?).

Anyway, I gave each team a large metal pot or bowl and told them that they needed to make a potion. After they made their potions, I would go around and taste them. The potion I liked best would win. They could either invent their own or use one from the book. Most people chose one from their books. Hufflepuff made the polyjuice potion, Ravenclaw made the Elixer to induce Euphoria, Slytherin made the Fire Protection potion, and so did Gryffindor, except Gryffindor added their own flare to it. I worked on a “Antidote to Common Poisons” to help “protect” me from the effects of the other potions in case they got it wrong. In the end Ravenclaw won, Slytherin was 2nd, and Griffindor was 3rd.

After that we did some clean up and it was time for the trip to Hogsmeade.

I checked everyones permission slips and then they could go to Honeydukes. I had set up my desk with all the candies. Unfortunately I didn’t get a picture of the shop all set up, sorry. Anyway, I found a nice logo and printed it out, then I stuck it to my white board with a magnet. I also made labels for the candy with the logo. This is what I used for the candy:

1. Friutizzles, these were the Joystix. They’re sticks of chewy fruit candy that are hard to explain.
2. Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans were just Jelly Beans, even though I did buy a package of Smoothie Jelly Beans for variety.
3. Acid Pops were lolipops dipped in honey and coated with poprocks. (I got the recipe here: http://www.mugglenet.com/misc/rosmertas/acidpops.shtml)
4. The Pocky (cracker like sticks coated with chocolate) were Chocolate Wands.
5. Chocolate Snitches were chocolate balls with golden wrappings.
6. Sour Balls were sour balls.

Everyone had the option to buy a honeydukes assorted candy bag (One of every candy and two chocolate wands) or they could pick out 6 candies on their own. Both options were 1 galleon. Off to the side you could also buy a Butterbeer for 1 galleon. I wanted to make Butterbeer with a recipe I had found online, but I couldn’t find the cream soda, so I had to settle with plain Root Beer as Butterbeer. We got A&W Root Beer, so my Dad had the idea that it was “Alchemist and Warlock’s” Butterbeer. 

Since everyone had 2 galleons left from Daigon Alley, most people spent one Galleon for their candy at Honeydukes, then spent their last galleon on the “Butterbeer”.

(Please ignore my messy handwriting on the Honeydukes white board. I was really late in the party preparations and so I was in a hurry).

After the Hogsmeade trip we gave everyone time to enjoy what they bought and watch a movie while we set up the great hall for the end of year feast.

The end of year feast was when we would announce who won the house cup (even though it was obvious if you looked at the hourglasses) and when we would have ice cream and cake.

The house cup is the top picture and the two can things to the side of the cup have these hard candy things inside that I used to fill the house cup with as a treat for the winners. The picture right above this paragraph shows the stuff I bought for the end of year feast. I got some nice trays, purple napkins (because that is kind of Hogwart’s color), golden forks and spoons (because they seemed like something Horwarts would have), and then the vanilla cake mix is in the back. You may have noticed that the finished cake is blue, that is a reference to a different fandom. Yep, you guessed it, the Percy Jackson Fandom where Percy has blue birthday cakes. The cake itself looks slightly green, that is because of the egg yokes. So, in the future when I want to make a blue cake, I’ll only use the egg whites. Anyway, you are probably wondering what that picture frame off to the right above the napkins are for, I used it as a decoration:

I made homemade vanilla ice cream too (we got an ice cream maker last Christmas!). I was hoping to make Butterbeer sorbet, but again I couldn’t find cream soda. 
Anyway, Ravenclaw won the house cup, and they split up the candy among themselves. The party was all really awesome. If any of you bothered adding up the points won in games and points in the hourglasses, you’ll see they are inconsistent. The reason is because I rewarded last minute points for random things at the end of year feast. Yep, that was the party.

So, besides having a lot of fun with the party I also got some pretty cool presents:

I got the 2nd book in the Ranger’s Apprentice Series:

I got a dragon model for my collection:

I got the 7th (no picture) and 8th books in the Guardians of Ga’hoole Series:

And my favorite thing was probably the giant map of middle earth that’s now hanging up in my room (also no picture). I also got a few other things too.

Anyway, the party was extremely fun and I’m glad how it turned out. I just wish that I had prepared a little better. So many things were last minute! There are a few things I would have liked to add if I had time and I could find all the Supplies:

1. Pumpkin Juice
2. Real Butter Beer
3. Fever Fudge (recipe: http://www.mugglenet.com/misc/rosmertas/feverfudge.shtml)
4. Zonko’s Joke Shop
5. Chocolate Cauldrons

and I’ll probably add more to the list as I think of them.

Valentine's Day and the Star Festival

So, Valentines day passed. Valentines day is never a big thing for me. I buy some chocolates, stick them to paper hearts, then give them to my family. Sometimes I get stuff back, and sometimes I just eat the left over chocolates that I bought. 

Other than that their’s nothing exceptional about February 14th. I suppose Valentines day is fun for my parents because they do a “14 days of Valentines” thing. It’s sort of like the 12 days of Christmas, except it starts on the 1st of February and there are 14 days. Anyway, I had a picture of the Valentines I made, but now I can’t find it, oh well. 

Hmm, what should I say next . . . Oh! It snowed twice this month, once on the 8th and then again on the 14th. It was awesome! It usually never snows more than once a year where I live. I had a few awesome snowball fights with my siblings and my dad. We also did other fun snow activities, like building a snowman and building a snow fort (We never actually got it that big). 

So, now I’ll move on to what’s coming up! Soon it will be the 22nd! Which is the Star Festival in a world I made up! Yep, not a real holiday, but you could still celebrate it if you wanted too. In the world I made up (Which is called Lithoniel, yep the same Lithoniel the first post talks about) the elves believe stars are angelic beings that live in the sky, there are 12 main stars (one for each month, and for each of the 12 major races) and many minor ones (for each of the minor races). The 22nd is the day in which the stars are celebrated. The elves of Lithoniel (and other places the follow the stars) go out to star watch and sing songs of the ancient days when only stars existed. Their are sometimes dancing, but mostly it is a night for calmness and peace, not active activities. Children enjoy eating special star candies that shine brightly in the night and having picnics under the stars.

10 Ideas for celebrating the Star Festival:

1. Write a poem or song about the stars
2. Draw/paint a picture of stars
3. Eat star shaped food
4. Make a star dance
5. Read stories about stars
6. Take a minute to just sit calmly and think of the stars
7. Take a peek out your window at night and watch the stars for a minute
8. Wear something with stars on it
9. Wish on a star
10. Write a story about stars (not necessarily the stars I described, just regular stars or make up your own idea about the stars).

Will I do the above things to celebrate the Star Festival? Maybe, maybe not. It depends on if I remember and if I have time, the 22nd is going to be a busy day for me. If you want to celebrate the star festival, go ahead. You don’t need to stick with the 10 ideas above, anything to do with stars is fine!

Quick note, everything I said about the stars (How they are angelic beings and there are 12 main ones for each month and race, etc.) is copy righted! Just in case I ever finish writing the story about Lithoniel and get it published. Don't worry if you've already made something along the lines of this idea, as long as it isn't exactly the same.

So, I have no idea when I’ll be posting next, but until then Aa' menealle nauva calen ar' malta (may your ways be green and golden)!

First Story

Okay, this might require a bit of explaining. Cassia is a character that goes to camp half-blood, but she goes to a camp half-blood where Percy and the others don't exist. It's difficult to explain. Also, please note that I wrote this story a few sentences at a time before I went to bed every night so it might not be the best.

I blink and open my eyes. “Where am I?” I ask to no one. I look around. I am on a beach next to a meadow filled with small purple wild flowers. 

“This is Concordia,” a sudden voice answers. I look up and see girl wearing an orange T-shirt and jeans. Her black hair waves in the breeze and her greenish blue eyes are piercing. 

“Who are you?” I ask as I stand up.

“I’m Cassia Xylin, daughter of Zeus and second lieutenant of the hunters of Artemis.”

“Whoa! Wait, like in Percy Jackson?” I say with widened eyes.

“Who?”

“You know, Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, goes to Camp Half-Blood.” 

Cassia looks surprised. “I’ve never heard of him, but I do go to Camp Half-Blood.” 

“Wow!”

“So, now you know who I am, but who are you?”

“I’m Emily.”

“Nice to meet you, where are you from?”

“Um, the United States.”

“Cool. Are you a demigod?”

“No.” I shake my head.

“Do you have any special powers?”

“No.”

“Are you a mortal then?”

“Yes, I guess.” 

Cassia looks thoughtful, “Hmm, I wonder why the Cordalae sent you.”

“The who?”

“The Cordalae, They select heroes from different worlds and dimensions to go on quests and solve problems in their world. I’m not sure how it works, but it seems to happen during your sleep. You wake up once the mission is finished.”

“Whoa, and they chose us?”

“Yes apparently.”

“What’s our mission?”

“I don’t know yet, We have to find a scroll.”

“A scroll?”

“Yes, it will tell us what to do and it should be around here somewhere.” Cassia starts scanning the ground and so I do as well.

“Is that it?” I ask as I point to a bottle washed up on the shore. I thought I could see something rolled up inside of it, but I wasn’t sure.

“Possibly.” Is all Cassia says before walking up to the bottle and picking it up. Then she wordlessly uncorks it and pries a worn piece of paper from it. I walk over as she silently reads it.

“What does it say?” I ask, peering over her shoulder.

“It is our mission scroll, good job for finding it.”

“Cool. What’s our mission?”

“We need to head north west through the forest to the lair of the manticore and defeat it.”

I gulp. “Why?”

“The manticore is an evil being of destruction. It was banished to this island long ago, but it seems to have found a way to escape the island and rampage the villages. We’ve got to stop it.” Cassia rolls up the scroll.

I nod. “How long will it take us to find the manticore lair?”

“It’s on the other side of the island, so all day walking. Luckily we won’t have to walk.”

“We won’t?”

“Nope, I have a friend who came along with me.” Cassia looks up to the sky and whistles. I look around feeling confuzzled until I see a grayish white speck flying toward us.

“A Pegasus!” I say in wonder and amazement as it comes into clear sight.

“Yep, meet Hiemis.” Cassia says as Hiemis lands in the sand. She walks over to him and begins stroking his nose.

“Wow, you can bring things from your world?”

“As long as they are useful to the mission, and it isn’t really you who decides. The Cordalae make all the decisions.”

“Do you have any other pets or mystical creature friends?”

“Yes, an eagle named Celeritas and a goldfish named Aestas. Aestas would obviously be a hinderance to the mission, but Celeritas is flying around here somewhere.” Cassia starts to mount Hiemis. 

“Whoa, cool.” I clumsily get on Hiemis behind Cassia. 

Cassia nudges Hiemis into a canter and then he launches into the air. We fly up over the forest and at first I look down watching the tree tops, but then that makes me feel giddy, so I look to the horizon instead.

“Wow, the view is amazing from up here!” I exclaim with delight.

“Yes, but it won’t change much over the next hour, so you might get tired of it eventually.”

I shrug. “Maybe. Anyway, what will this manticore be like?”

“The scroll says that it is 10 ft. tall, has dragon wings, a scorpion tail and the body of a lion.”

I nod and she continues. “It also says that the manticore rampages during the day and returns to its caves at night. It will be almost impossible to fight the manticore it its caves, so we need to ambush it before it goes inside.”

I look up at the sky, “That doesn’t give us very long. It’s almost sunset.”

“I know.”

“How are we going to defeat it? Does the manticore have any weaknesses?”

“I don’t know, I’ve never fought a manticore before. I guess we can stick with the usual weapons and see how that goes. Do you have any weapons?” Cassia shifts to look at me.

“Um, no, I don’t.”

Cassia shakes her head. “Do you have any experience with weapons?”

“Well, I’ve done a little archery before, but I was never very good at it.”

Cassia looks thoughtful then pulls out a mechanical pencil from her pocket. “Here, This was a gift from my father, but I’ll let you use it for this mission. Use it if you ever get into danger. I know you have more experience with bows, but I feel it would be best for me to use my bow because it is my better weapon.” She hands me the mechanical pencil.

“Um . . .” Suddenly in dawns on me. “Whoa, is this like Percy’s pen? Like, will it turn into an awesome sword if I click the end?” I ask all excited.

Cassia looks at me with surprise. “I still don’t know who Percy is, but it will turn into a spear if you click the end. Don’t  do it right now cause it might throw off Hiemis’s balance.”

I heed her warning and put it in my pocket. “What if I forget to give it back before I go home? What will happen? Will it come back with me?”

“No, things don’t work like that here. Once you wake up you will only have the things you brought with you. Even the sand on your clothes will stay here.”

“Oh, I suppose that’s handy, but if I have no evidence, then couldn’t I dismiss all this as a dream?”

“Yes, I did after my first mission, but now I’ve been doing quests for a year and I know better.”

“Wow, that’s a long time.”

Cassia shrugs. “Let’s land down for a break. We’re getting close to the manticore’s lair and we need to make a battle plan.”

“Okay.” I stretch as best as I can, I couldn’t wait to walk around a little. Cassia scans the forest for a place to land before steering Hiemis to a small clearing. I hold on tight as we come in for a landing.

After the initial thud, Hiemis canters to a stop. Cassia swings off with ease and I shakily follow. Cassia then sits on a nearby log and looks off into space with her head in her hands. I stumble slightly as I walk around on good solid earth.

Suddenly a piercing shriek sounds through the air and a bald eagle dives into the clearing. Cassia is startled out of her thoughts and raises her arm. The eagle lands on it.

“Meet Celeritas, which means swiftness in Latin.” Cassia strokes his beak. I come forward to pet him, but Cassia stops me with a swift command. “He has a very sharp beak and he isn’t very friendly to strangers.” I pull my fingers back and watch from a respectful distance. 

Finally Cassia turns to me and Celeritas flies onto a tree branch. “We need to start planning.” Cassia says as she kneels on the ground and starts drawing in the dirt with a stick. I kneel next to her and she explains her plan.

“So, we’re here and the manticore lair is right around here.” She points with the stick. “There are plenty of trees to hide in for the ambush, but the manticore most likely has extremely good senses. We need something to make it ignore its usual procedure of scanning around its cave for danger.”

I nod as she continues, but a knot forms in my stomach as she explains further. I was to act as bait. I had to go near the manticore’s cave ad pretend to hide. Then as it came to attack me, it wouldn’t notice Cassia hiding in the trees and she could attack and kill it with her arrows. Cassia didn’t like the plan much either, but it was the best thing we could come up with.

As soon as everything is decided, we get back on Hiemis and continue flying because we had less than half an hour till the manticore reached the island.

Ten minutes later as we land on the ground, a terrible roar makes the ground tremble.

“Oh no! He’s come to soon!” Cassia Moans. “Quickly! Get into Position!”

I jump forward and hide behind a few boulders near the cave as the roaring gets louder and louder. Suddenly the ground shakes as the manticore thumps to the ground. I cringe, it would be upon me at any minute.

The manticore suddenly freezes and sniffs and snorts. Then he lets out a battle cry and charges . . . straight to the forest. I stare in bewilderment as it rampages toward Cassia’s hiding spot.

Szwoosh! She lets an arrow fly and it embeds itself on the manticore’s foreleg, unfortunately that doesn’t slow it down much. Cassia releases another arrow, but the manticore ducks and it misses him by a hair.

I watch, frozen in fear as Cassia tries to nudge Hiemis into the air, but he seems as frozen as I am. The manticore raises its stinger and I see Cassia’s look of terror and fright. Suddenly I hear the cry of an eagle and Celeritas swoops out of the sky. He flies around the manticores head, raking with his talons then darting out of reach as the manticore tries to swat him out of the air.

I see Cassia pull out a new arrow that looks different from the others. It looks more of a navy blue that the blackish brown of the regular arrows she had been using. Unfortunately before she can use it, the manticore turns it’s attention back to her and knocks her from the saddle with a swipe of his giant paws.

Hiemis neighs in alarm and Celeritas desperately tries to distract the manticore again. I watch in horror as the manticore raises its stinger again.

Suddenly a wild idea comes to me and I activate the spear Cassia gave me. Then without a second thought I charged from my hiding place with a war call. The manticore momentarily freezes in surprise before it turns to me. I continue my charge and drive the spear into its leg.

The manticore rears up with a roar of pain, tearing the spear from my grasp. My heart beats wildly as the manticore looks at me with murder in its eyes.

It raises its terrible paw and then stops, clenching in pain. I see the manticore’s fur stand on end and hear a crackle of electricity. Then the manticore falls sideways to the ground and I see the navy blue arrow sticking from its shoulder. 

Ah, it must have been an electric arrow. I think. I look to Cassia who is standing behind the manticore, bow in hand. 

She smiles at me. “Thanks.”

“For what?” I ask looking surprised.

“For rushing in and saving me. That was really brave, especially since you’ve never fought a monster before.”

“Oh, well, you’re welcome.” I shuffle my feet. “So, what happens now?”

“The Cordalae will come and take the manticore and we go home.”

“The Cordalae come! Do we get to see them?”

“No, they mostly come as a presence, but sometimes . . .”

A startling flash of lights interrupts her and when it is gone, the manticore has disappeared. A shining golden treasure chest is left in its place.

“Sometimes they leave something behind.” Cassia finishes.

“That’s amazing.” I walk over to the chest.

Cassia follows me and opens it. She pulls out a pink mechanical pencil and a vial of dark liquid. “Here, this is for you.” She hands me the mechanical pencil. I take it and click the end, it lengthens into a spear.

“Wow, just like yours. Oh! Speaking of yours, I never gave it back!” I look around for it.

“Don’t worry. It’s right here.” Cassia deactivates it and puts it in her pocket.

“What did the cordalae give you?”

“A vial of manticore venom. I’m not sure what I’ll use it for, but the Cordalae never do anything without a reason.”

I nod. “But, wait. I thought we couldn’t bring anything back to our worlds with us.”

“We can’t, but next time we go on a mission we’ll have these things with us.”

“Oh, okay.” I squint at Cassia, for a second she had started to look a little blurry.

“It looks like I’m about to wake up.” Cassia rubs her eyes.

“Oh no! Will I ever see you again?” I look alarmed as everything around me begins to blur.

“Maybe, if the Cordalae see fit, but even if we don’t I’ll never forget this adventure.

“Me neither.” The land around me blurs further. Suddenly my eyes fly open and I’m in my bed and sunlight is streaming through my bedroom window.

First Post and Introduction!

Hey, I'm Sarah and this is the first post of my blog. I'll try to post things every now and then, but I probably won't be able to that often. I'll most likely write about writing, as in stories I'm working on, and story ideas I've had. I'll include other fun things that are happening in my life too. This first post is going to be short because it's getting late here and I have to wake up early tomorrow.
So, hmm, I'm blank on what to write about. Any ideas? I'm working on a story right now, well I haven't actually worked on if for a while, but I'd like to get started on it again. The story is about a princess from a land of elves called Lithoniel. The elves of Lithoniel are Rune Keepers (They use runes for magic) and they are kept safe in their kingdom because of a powerful shield set up in the ancient days. Unfortunately the Rune Keepers have become lazy and are not watching their borders as they should, because of this they don't notice that the shield is slowly being weakened by an evil power. Soon the shield will be powerless and the people of Lithoniel will face an unexpected war! Dun Dun Dun!
So, that's all I'm going to write for now. Good night! Tell me what you think of the story idea. I'll write again sometime soon. Quel Du (Good night in LOTR elvish)!