Sunday, October 12, 2014

People in Charge, the Allies

Unlike many horror and supernatural stories, in my book, On Black Wings, the government is a friend. The world is ending, the people in charge are scrambling, and no one has the faintest clue of what's going on. The government retreats and searches for answers.

They find answers in her.

They reach out to Jessica, Becks, and Azrael, and pull them in. The three of them become part of the answer to the fateful day, and high-level members of the government craft a plan to save the world. I won't say who she meets, because that is part of the fun of the book.

This is Colonel Beck's part of the book, the world he lives in includes the government, and as a soldier, he sees them as an answer and a friend. He brings Jessica into that world, and they work together with some pretty important people to set things right given her powers.

It is a very strange turn, and one I thought I might have to roll back in the story - but it felt true and real. This is part of the book's turn, the decisions she made being a part of her journey, and the people she meets mattering to the outcome of events. I stuck with it, no matter how strange and odd it may seem in a book about paranormal horror and life-changing events, and it worked.

There is a tone of disaster movies, planning, and fighting back here that I love, and the end of the book pays homage to some of my favorite movies and scenes in them. I know, it is strange and off-key for a book like this, but it is striking, a swash of bright paint across my dark portrait to make a statement.

Things can change. Those in charge can help change things. There is a power in working together and empowering people for positive and progressive action together as partners from the lowest level to the highest. It is a trust in society and the positive forces which bring government and people together to create lasting and positive change for the better.

A dark book with a hopeful and positive message? I know. I know. Trust me, there is enough darkness and loneliness in this book to go around. I wanted this contrast, this message, this cooperation and trust. Her life? Still ruined, and there is nothing those in charge can do about it. Yet they place their faith in her, and she in them, and that bridge built is what helps them get through these terrible times.

The book takes on a tone of action and quite possibly adventure by the end, but it is not adventure for adventure's sake - it is close to tension and a ticking clock that she is a part of and must be somewhere at the right moment at the right time. More than that, she has to carry others with her, help them, and be a part of that moment with others in order to save the world.

There are things, evil things, that pull her away, and we wonder about the ending and if it is even going to happen at all. The forces of darkness strike back, get her to be a part of their world, and she returns to the mission different, jaded, dark, and hiding secrets.

She still carries on. She knows what is right, and she knows she could be pulled away a million times - in time, yet she trudges on with the plan.

I love the government and the people in charge in this story, they are real people, searching for answers, and finding one in her and the people she met along the way. They are also a part of the ending, the sacrifice, and the message sent across worlds and time to try and make things right for a world that will never know how close they came to destruction.

It is a relatively positive ending, yet is still has loss, bittersweet emotions, and sacrifice. Her life is ruined, gone to the ashes on the wind, and she is left with one last decision at the end. Like life, what she knew is gone, and there's nothing anyone in power can do to restore her loss. She must walk on, alone, and make that final choice.

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