Lost Angel 1

I'm sure you all read the book already and are sick and tired of the summaries; that's why I took it upon myself to do things a little differently. I'm going to post the points in the story that are important or have changed, etc etc.., you'll get the the drift when you start reading the points (hopefully)... so here goes:

- Hilda and her daughter Ellen lost their home to the bombs in London. Hilda's parents died because the bombs.
- Hilda wears her mother's chain and crucifix though neither she nor her mother was religious. Though her mother had worn the necklace because she felt it had protected her, Hilda believed in no such thing.
- Mabel, Hilda's friend, let's Hilda and Ellen stay with her until they leave to go to Gertie's farm. Mabel doesn't trust or approve of Gertie.
- As they settled down at the small farm, Ellen realizes a fascination for animals, and, because of that, Hilda believes she has made the right decision.
- Gertie and Hilda share a childhood together, where Hilda's mom was housekeeping for Gertie's father.
- Something about Gertie made the community as a whole deject her. Even her father, a religious man, saw her as an abomination in God's eyes. Nevertheless, Hilda didn't judge Gertie and still trusted her.

Question: Why was Hilda so set against believing in God or her mom's necklace? And since she didn't, why did Hilda still wear the crucifix?
:)

Daughter of the Empire 5

Without further preamble, I write to you the last, but never least, episode of 'Daughter of the Empire'. Enjoy the twists of the next trickery ;)

In such a celebration, blood feuds were supposed to be outwardly put on hold. On entrance to Minwanabi estates, Mara was given the Lord of the Minwanabi's (Lord Jingu's) honor to the safety of his 'guests' (so that if Mara or anyone under her was harmed by anyone Mineanabi, Jingu would have to kill himself to restore his house's honor).  But the Lord's promise said nothing of accidents.
Stationed in a chamber out of the way of the rest of the house, Mara, her First Advisor, and a Strike Leader were asleep when the first attack came. A warrior took the Strike Leader by surprise and managed to give a fatal blow to the latter, but not before receiving an equal blow in return. Quickly, the First Advisor started a fire and began calling for help (that way, no one could ignore their pleas for help). When again in the safety of the public, Mara was nettled to realize that Jingu blamed the attack to that of a random thief. Without any evidence, she was forced to accept this.
Then Mara, with her Spy Master acting as her new Strike Leader, discretely sent a letter to Teani (the mistress who swore to kill Mara) to come meet her at night, when all was asleep. Teani came, bringing with her a warrior for protection. Mara claimed to have documents that proved Teani was an Anasati spy (which she was). So Teani, provoked by anger, struck at Mara. The warrior Teani brought with her was honor bound to protect Mara; he killed Teani. Then, when he realized that Mara had no documents to prove of Teani's real loyalties, and that Lord Jingu would be forced to kill himself, the warrior decided to kill Mara and claim to everyone in the morning that Mara had attacked first. While he aimed an attack at Mara, Mara's Spy Master hit him from behind, hard enough to make him unconscious.
By now, all the guests had awoken from the noise of the fight. When Mara accused Jingu, he denied again, saying she had no proof; but this time the Warlord intervened. He asked a Magician to prove who lied and who told the truth. Against all odds, Mara had defeated Jingu... but not the Minwanabi. Jingu's son, the new Lord, looked at Mara with murderous eyes only.

As another attempt to better her conditions, Mara suggested to the Warlord to complete his birthday celebrations on Acoma lands. After struggling for the needs of survival, Mara of the Acoma had finally restored her clan and empowered it.

Now that I have finally told all of the book, I am sorry to say that I will not be able to tell you what more will become of Mara of the Acoma, since the sequels of this book I cannot find.
But if anyone chances to find them their titles are:

Servants of the Empire
Mistress of the Empire

If you do find them, buy them, read them, but above all tell me at once where they are so I can get my own copies :)
TTFN - Tigger style :P

Daughter of the Empire 4

i'm baaaaaaack ! :D

With the new circumstances, the Anasati was made a reluctant ally; Mara's son was the Anasati Lord's grandson, and though he would much rather kill Mara, Tecuma (the Anasati Lord), cared for his grandson.
The spy network informed Mara that her late husband's mistress was a Minwanabi spy. Without letting the spy know she was discovered, Mara dispensed the former mistress in the pretense of a jealous wife. As it turned out though, the spy, Teani, was actually an Anasati spy playing the role as a Minwanabi spy for the Acoma (What happened was, as an Anasati spy, she went to the Minwanabi; then the Minwanabi used her to spy on the Acoma... ;P). Teani had unexpectedly loved Mara's late husband; so now she vowed to kill Mara when the chance arrived. After being dispensed, she left again for the Minwanabi house.
As soon as the traditional mourning period was over, Mara received a multitude of marriage petitions. One of those petitions came from a Minwanabi's ally. Not wanting to seem weak, Mara accepted the petition (not the marriage), but since there would probably be an assassin among the visiting retinue, she decided to fight back. Using her charms she led the suitor to be smitten with her, and he vainly conceded by using up already declining wealth to impress Mara. Though the suitor withdrew his proposal, Mara benefitted by tricking the suitor into owing her a favor should he become ruling lord after his father.
With that advantage in mind, Mara then faced the next hardship: she had been invited by her enemy the Minwanabi to the annual celebration held at the Minwanabi house in honor of the Warlod's birthday. Finally, the time had come for Mara to confront her sworn enemy.

NEXT POST: How can Mara act to once again change the odds in favor of the Acoma house? Find out in the next, and final post 'Daughter of the Empire 5'...

:S

Does anyone know how to send an email through the gmail?? Why is everything so backward??

Daughter of the Empire 3

(no worries; this is the real thing ;P )
Now, since i fear my life at the hands of Nadia's rash disposition, I have finally decided to complete the story:

After Mara gave birth to a healthy boy, Ayaki, she began implementing her plan to regain the rule of her clan. One by one, she began to indirectly control Acoma affairs without her husband's knowledge; her husband began to live in the neighboring city for pleasure purposes; Mara had provoked her husband to order her not to disturb him while he was at town no matter what. Thus, when her father-in-law and the Warlord (something like the 'ultimate' king) came to visit them, Mara's husband had no idea; his guests arrived and he was nowhere to be seen.
By this time the insult done to the Lord of the Anasati (Mara's father-in-law) and the Warlord was irreparable; the punishment decided was as such: either the Lord of the Acoma took his own life, or he and his clan (the Acoma) would perish.
The Lord of the Acoma, Mara's husband chose to.....
till next time then ;)




hahahahaa!!!! Just kidding! Do you honestly think I could be that cruel ?? :P

So, he chose to take his own life, but not before he said quietly to Mara these words that haunted her in later days: ... know that the pieces you manipulate are flesh and blood.
now, I must seriously, temporarily stop; when I can, I'll tell the rest of this tale ;)

Whattaya think ??

So I've been playing a bit with this blogger-thing (don't you think the word 'thing' is truly a priceless word?? I mean look at it -not literally- ! You can use it anywhere, everywhere, and instead of anything !!! See what i did there? ;P anyway, what I'm trying to say is: the word thing is an irreplaceable and infinitely undervalued one... I'd like to see any of you find a more suitable and multi-tasked word), and Ta-Daa !!!!
I finally found how Fouda did it (honestly speaking, my slow-learning had nothing to do with being computer-illeterate; on the contrary, it was because I didn't allow myself the time to discover these extra-thingies!!)
Well, the old wall with the bookshelf kind of started to hurt my eyes; too distracting. And thus, I chose this !! :D
What do you guys think??

Daughter of the Empire 3

Well, onto the continuation of Mara's delightful story;


So, as Mara decided to.....  just kidding !!!
i still didn't read enough to blog about :P