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Unexpected Ultimatum (Unplanned Princess Book 6),
p.27
“You don’t worry about the prophecy?” Zaena asked. “It could be interpreted as saying the doom of our people lies in you helping me.”
“You don’t believe that,” Saelli replied, “and I don’t either, but you’re right. I can’t know for certain that I’m following the right path, even with my gift, but that’s no different than anyone else. I’ll rely on what has kept so many others going. I’ll rely on my faith, trust, and hope.” She placed her hand on Zaena’s shoulder. “Together, Princess, we will free our people in more ways than one. Our time separated from the true expanse of the Earth has warped all the tribes. Curing the Creeping Azure is about more than saving our lives. It’s about saving our souls.”
Zaena smiled. “Thank you for your kind words. I hope to live up to your faith.”
“You already are.” Saelli smiled. “When I return to San Francisco, I think it’s time we dug out our nexus.”
“A grand idea.”
Zaena took a deep breath and stared into the distance. Centuries had collapsed to years and years to months. She’d struggled, but success after success had come. Having a little faith in fate wasn’t so bad.
“We will free the elves,” Zaena declared, “and we’ll defeat any great beast or ghosts of the past that emerge.”
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Author Notes - Michael Anderle
August 7, 2021
Thank you for not only reading this story but these author notes as well.
For most of my young life (and young adult), I lived in and around Houston, Texas. Like Florida, it is very humid and located in the southern United States. It gets miserable without air conditioning in the summer, and the winter (for locals) is stupid cold (again because of the humidity) in the 40’s and don’t talk to me about the thirties. I believed people died from hypothermia when I was a teenager when it was in the thirties.
Presently, I live in Las Vegas, which is a ‘dry heat’. I have officially decided that somewhere about 105 degrees and up, it doesn’t matter if it is dry heat or not – it’s @#%@#% hot!
Yesterday, when it was a hundred and nine degrees in the shade, I stepped outside to do something and decided outside could wait.
Preferably outside can wait until fall.
This morning I stepped outside around 8:00 AM, and it was a blistery ninety-five degrees. There was about a ten mile an hour breeze blowing (maybe fifteen?), and it seemed downright pleasant for a moment.
Only a second.
The weather here lulls you into a sense of complacency when you aren’t looking, Weather turns up the heat and wind to sandblast the outer epidermal layers of your skin. You get the benefit of a skin abrasion (I’m sure that it worth some money at the expensive spas) and a fast-acting sunburn.
Windburn? Some kind of burn.
I ignored the seductive call of the ‘cool morning breeze’ and jumped into my car safe from Weather.
I’m too old and too wise to fall for that trick. Weather will have to work harder to get me outside long enough to suffer its attacks during the summer.
However, I should at least let Weather know I appreciate the examples of how it feels to live in a desert. I shall use that information in a book sometime soon.
Stay safe out there this summer (winter – if you are below the equator.)
Ad Aeternitatem,
Michael Anderle
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