“Why not?” asked Edie, frowning.

“Because,” said Leila, “there is very little that I know about my sister that Lal does not know. That is, I believe Rook knows her rather better than I do, and as she is trying to harm students I am sure they have shared all of their information in an attempt to stop her.”

“But she’s your sister,” Corrie said, confused. “Don’t you know her really well?” She looked around the table, trying to get agreement from her friends. “I mean, I don’t have any siblings, but I always thought if I did have a sister we would tell each other all our secrets.”

They had a surprise at dinner that evening—at least, it was a surprise to Corrie. Leila joined them in the dining hall. She and Edie were waiting there at their usual table, along with Rico and Dawn, when Corrie arrived. She paused before approaching them, unsure for a moment whether her discomfort was with Leila or with the idea that she would be a fifth wheel, then shook her head at her own silliness. She and Leila had made a truce, and should be getting along fine now.

Corrie’s eyes widened. “A link to Mardalan? Do you mean that you could use it to find her?”

I've recently written some other long stories that are available free online, on my Dreamwidth journal. I thought you guys might be interested! They are both fantasy, though that is about all they have in common with Chatoyant College.

I'm linking to the main landing page for each story. They have links to each chapter, and each chapter also has next/previous links at the bottom for ease of navigation. You can comment there as anonymous or using OpenID, or if you'd like you can come back to this post to comment.

To what extent is faerie psychology similar to human psychology? Can we just read across results from human psychological experiments to faeries (assuming that we take into account the different abilities they have and societal structure they have)? If we can't, how do faeries differ in their psychological make up to humans?

Monday, November 24

Corrie was delighted at first to have another day of trance in magic class. It wasn’t that she thought she needed the practice—there was no way she could overdo trance like she had with elemental magic, and she was pretty much confident with any type of magic now. But she was glad that she was able to make up for the problems she’d had in Friday’s class, when she had been unable to achieve trance at all.

Here's where you can post Chatoyant College fanfiction.

To help everybody, including Clare, I suggest the following rules:

Mark every item as fanfiction

Clare has indicated to me that she permits fanfiction but does not want to read it herself.[1] I, therefore, suggest that we all indicate that a post is fanfiction by mentioning that clearly in the subject heading so that a person using the comment headings on the left hand side of the screen to go directly to new comments knows what it is in advance.

Timing

When Dawn opened her eyes, she could see all the magic around her. For a moment she was overwhelmed by her two friends—Corrie just had so much magic, and Edie’s was so strange and sparkling. But her internal eyes quickly adjusted, and she could see the haze of magic all around her. And it really was all around; as Corrie had predicted, all the books seemed to have a little magic in them, more than other inanimate objects. Dawn wondered whether that was something inherent to all books, or whether they had picked it up from being on a magical campus and used by people who did magic.

By the time Dawn’s shift ended, not only was she starving, but she had hardly found any of the books. She managed to check on the titles of the ones she did remember in the library computer system, and found that four of them had been checked out (including The Practical Use of Magic, which was under her name, of course) and three were on the shelves. When she located the ones on the shelves, she realized she had no idea how to check them. Two were history books and one was an upper-level philosophy text.

A lot of us seem to be webcomic fans so what webcomics do you read? Which ones would you recommend to us?