The Hanyou's Prayer (2/4)

I'm striking while the iron is hot! ^_^ It's been what, a week since I started this? Less? 

I've done a little decision-making and plotting, and I've firmed up that this story will be short-ish, having only four parts. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will come out under fifty pages/20,000 words. (Sad, I know, that that would be what I'm calling short these days.)

The rundown on this story is a little like this:

Title: The Hanyou's Prayer
Rating: R? PG-13? Something like that.
Summary: Gojyo has a bit of a mishap and has to live with the life-altering consequences.
Warnings: Alternate reality taking place in and branching off from the canon universe; probable, eventual sex between Gojyo and Hakkai; swearing and probable canon-appropriate violence; present tense and gratuitous use of italics. This is a rough draft and is therefore prone to my own special, neglectful brand of editing. If something's super wonky, let me know, yeah?

For those of you coming upon this now, the first part can be found here.


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( The Hanyou's Prayer: Part Two )

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So...Those couple paragraphs where I switched tenses were a killer, for some reason. I dithered over which tense was appropriate. I confess, writing this story in present tense throws me for a loop anyway--even though I think it reads better in present, I write most easily in past tense. It's an effort to stay in present tense and then to switch out of it, on purpose...ugh.

I'm still thinking about a big giant index...but for now, my brains are swimming with tiredness.

~later


For the sake of continuity, part three is here.