#matreci

Cyche turned to Tave and said, “It's your turn tonight.” Tave grinned in a long-suffering manner and stood up from the table. Tirum made another face at Kandry and waved his arms in strange formations at her. Kandry curled up on the small couch and made a face at her brother. Tave sat down beside her and put his arm around her.

“Kandry, Tirum was on the other side of the room. He couldn't have poked you,” Tave explained. Kandry shook her head and buried her face in Tave's shoulder.

“I don't like him, he's a meanie, and he likes pancakes!” Kandry said loudly into his shoulder. Tave grinned and patted her back.

“Don't you like apple pancakes?” Tave asked her. Kandry shook her head and wrapped her arms around Tave's neck. Tirum rolled his eyes and started making drum sounds on his stomach. Aside from a cloth diaper, Tirum refused to wear clothes at night. Cyche had tried insisting that he was too old for a diaper, and he had been potty-trained, but he continued to wear it.

After thinking about it for a while, I've decided that I might write a few more scenes, maybe, but I might not write any more at all. All of my stories have some sort of redeeming quality. Kyle and Alyx fall in love. They learn how to get along. Mirinah figures out what the worth of her life is. She realizes that helping people is worth the cost. Terrance learns how to be a dad. Max realizes that he has what it takes. Tave recognizes that people will see evil where there is none. Cyche concludes that everyone has a monster inside they have to fight.

What does Jason bring but more suffering and destruction? Purgance is about the decline of a man into something lesser. An intelligent beast. There's not much redeeming about that. The story is dark, and frought with violent scenes and messages that I don't want to spread. Jason's thoughts are destructive and dark to their core. His views on life and religion and love are horrible and come from thought patterns so engraved into his core that they might as well be considered irreversible.

I can't write that for long. I don't want to. I won't anymore.

I feel like this could be a long post, and I'll probably talk quite a bit about a lot of stuff in here.

I'm working on so much and haven't touched most of it for a while. I want to continue writing, but I feel as if I might need to dump everything and focus singularly on something entirely new. At least for a little while. I think I might start working on The Fall of Orotius. Everything spawns from this single story. It lays the foundation for the Virus in Impact, it sets the foundation for The Fall of Hope, The Fall of Tirre, and Matreci, and it leads the reader to realize that this series will spawn across hundreds of years. It shows that the people on Tirre started on Vita Nova, hundreds of years before anyone else had space travel. They start their journey to Tirre from Vita Nova and leave a large station overhead that terraforms the planet so that if someone else finds it, there will be enough resources to sustain them as the planet had sustained the original inhabitants for so long.

Once they arrive on Tirre, they start to build, and using advanced technology, they're able to quickly make an empire in just under 20 years. After that, the real story starts, with Jadec passing through the marketplace. From Jadec, everything spreads. He's one of the Matreci ancestors, back when the Matrix was actually just a much smaller engine that limited the abilities to themselves only. Jadec is invisible. And from his line spawns Mirinah. He has two markings, one on each arm, and each one is made up of slightly different colors. One is basically a mood ring. The other controls and regulates his power, which is invisibility.

The terraforming station they left on Vita Nova creates a supervirus that imbues itself into every living creature. A huge meteor smashes into the station and carries it and all of the pieces into a far off nebula, where they collide into a star.

After this, the events return to Tirre, where Jadec finds a girl that can see him. She dies the next day. The only other girl that can see him, a young woman named Kismara, thinks that she has gone insane, to her dismay. Jadec doesn't know for sure if that's what she thinks, and so never tries to comfort her. Eventually he knocks over a pot on accident nearby and everyone turns to look. She is the only one that can see him grimace in frustration at his carelessness, and he runs away. Kismara follows him and they meet and talk for the first time. From here, their relationship starts.

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