Hello, Max, and welcome back to our ponderous place where we do our best to demystify some of the many mysteries shrouding the magical world which is the setting for my books featuring Buggy Crenshaw, and of course, my latest Magpie & Dilly.
Before we begin let's welcome our friends and followers and offer all a polite thank you for stopping in. I do hope you enjoy what you see here and feel free to comment on any post or email me directly by clicking that large purplish envelope over there to the right. If you do enjoy your stay, the simplest way of letting me know is by clicking that Join This Site button which is also there to your right just above all those lovely mugshots of our current followers. Also, you'll find an email subscription box over there which you are most welcome to use. I do my best to post weekly, but life does occasionally get in the way.
So! The last we all met here, I promised this week I would tell you more about the "thin spots" between our world and that of the magical. These days, I suspect it's common knowledge that places such as the Bermuda Triangle, Death Valley, and the entire town of Frankenstein, Indiana (real place, not kidding!) are notorious pass-throughs between worlds, as are the "tears" created by the Northern Lights and the fissures formed by earthquakes. Even the underwater volcanoes located nearly five miles beneath the ocean's surface occasionally rupture the membrane and allow easy passage.
What I would like to bring to your attention, however, are a few of the more cleverly clandestine ways of entering our world as well as leaving if one has the proper amount of magicality. Mirrors are a very handy route for travelers beings that they are all connected by means of the Mirror Road. (For more information on that, please see Magpie & Dilly where the Mirror Road is featured somewhat prominently.) And another common passageway is, of course, under your bed in the black of night.
Likely, most of you can also think of a few suspected thin spots (or trap doors as Buggy Crenshaw calls them, or more accurately in her case, worm holes). But please allow me to enlighten you of one I actually consider rather dangerous: photographs!
That's right, pictures. Absolutely one of the trickiest means for the others to enter our world is through photos of virtually anyone, although historical figures seem to be their favorites. I've not yet figured out why, but I suspect it has to do with their possible former ties to those featured in the photo which is precisely the reason I bring you this picture of none other than Adolph Hitler himself!
When my dear friend Octavia Beeswax first showed me this photo, I was admittedly skeptical that there could be anything sinister about it (aside from its subject matter, naturally). However, when next she handed me this Seeing Stone, which you see there to your right, and instructed me to view the photograph through the hole in the stone, I thought her mad!
Of course, I'd heard of Seeing Stones (They've actually been in use since the age of the Druids!), and other such devices (Specter Detectors and Steampunk goggles are two more), but I'd never used one...and obviously, I wasn't much good at it! I saw nothing at all out of the ordinary when I first held it over Herr Hitler's image and so was little impressed.
However! The second I started to pull the stone away was precisely when I saw a strange and disturbing magic begin to take place! No longer could I see the Furor's image, but another even more sinister creature was there in the very center of the stone's shadow!
I was so stunned by this revelation that I very nearly fainted dead away! Thank heaven my friend Octavia was there to support me (as well as mock me, of course), or else my knees surely would've gave way. As it were, the worst I did was drop the Seeing Stone dead on that foul and fearsome face before stumbling backward and away from this unwelcome intruder.
Later, after the evil had been thwarted, my nerves had settled a bit, and my friend had headed off home, I went to my study to retrieve a few of the journals belonging to the Sorceress Mary Morgan to see if she'd ever managed to document anything similar to what I had just witnessed.
Incredibly, I found more than I'd hoped! Not only had she written volumes about such things as thin spots and other portals, wormholes, and the like, but she'd also made numerous entries about time travel and trans-dimensional roadways (including the Mirror Road). And, as you can plainly see for yourself, she was also well aware of the Demon (a vulgar creature called Dander Flux) who had attempted to enter by way of Adolph Hitler's photograph! I was so enthralled by it all that I nearly didn't notice that even more wickedness was afoot:
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Until next week, please do your very best to dream big!
Before we begin let's welcome our friends and followers and offer all a polite thank you for stopping in. I do hope you enjoy what you see here and feel free to comment on any post or email me directly by clicking that large purplish envelope over there to the right. If you do enjoy your stay, the simplest way of letting me know is by clicking that Join This Site button which is also there to your right just above all those lovely mugshots of our current followers. Also, you'll find an email subscription box over there which you are most welcome to use. I do my best to post weekly, but life does occasionally get in the way.
So! The last we all met here, I promised this week I would tell you more about the "thin spots" between our world and that of the magical. These days, I suspect it's common knowledge that places such as the Bermuda Triangle, Death Valley, and the entire town of Frankenstein, Indiana (real place, not kidding!) are notorious pass-throughs between worlds, as are the "tears" created by the Northern Lights and the fissures formed by earthquakes. Even the underwater volcanoes located nearly five miles beneath the ocean's surface occasionally rupture the membrane and allow easy passage.
What I would like to bring to your attention, however, are a few of the more cleverly clandestine ways of entering our world as well as leaving if one has the proper amount of magicality. Mirrors are a very handy route for travelers beings that they are all connected by means of the Mirror Road. (For more information on that, please see Magpie & Dilly where the Mirror Road is featured somewhat prominently.) And another common passageway is, of course, under your bed in the black of night.
Likely, most of you can also think of a few suspected thin spots (or trap doors as Buggy Crenshaw calls them, or more accurately in her case, worm holes). But please allow me to enlighten you of one I actually consider rather dangerous: photographs!
That's right, pictures. Absolutely one of the trickiest means for the others to enter our world is through photos of virtually anyone, although historical figures seem to be their favorites. I've not yet figured out why, but I suspect it has to do with their possible former ties to those featured in the photo which is precisely the reason I bring you this picture of none other than Adolph Hitler himself!
When my dear friend Octavia Beeswax first showed me this photo, I was admittedly skeptical that there could be anything sinister about it (aside from its subject matter, naturally). However, when next she handed me this Seeing Stone, which you see there to your right, and instructed me to view the photograph through the hole in the stone, I thought her mad!
Of course, I'd heard of Seeing Stones (They've actually been in use since the age of the Druids!), and other such devices (Specter Detectors and Steampunk goggles are two more), but I'd never used one...and obviously, I wasn't much good at it! I saw nothing at all out of the ordinary when I first held it over Herr Hitler's image and so was little impressed.
However! The second I started to pull the stone away was precisely when I saw a strange and disturbing magic begin to take place! No longer could I see the Furor's image, but another even more sinister creature was there in the very center of the stone's shadow!
I was so stunned by this revelation that I very nearly fainted dead away! Thank heaven my friend Octavia was there to support me (as well as mock me, of course), or else my knees surely would've gave way. As it were, the worst I did was drop the Seeing Stone dead on that foul and fearsome face before stumbling backward and away from this unwelcome intruder.Later, after the evil had been thwarted, my nerves had settled a bit, and my friend had headed off home, I went to my study to retrieve a few of the journals belonging to the Sorceress Mary Morgan to see if she'd ever managed to document anything similar to what I had just witnessed.
Incredibly, I found more than I'd hoped! Not only had she written volumes about such things as thin spots and other portals, wormholes, and the like, but she'd also made numerous entries about time travel and trans-dimensional roadways (including the Mirror Road). And, as you can plainly see for yourself, she was also well aware of the Demon (a vulgar creature called Dander Flux) who had attempted to enter by way of Adolph Hitler's photograph! I was so enthralled by it all that I nearly didn't notice that even more wickedness was afoot:
Until next week, please do your very best to dream big!
I am such a geek for world building :) Fantastic post!
ReplyDeleteThank you. And have no fear, we are completely geek-friendly here. :-)
DeleteNow you have me on the edge of my seat to read the next post about the viewing stone and this wondrous creative adventure! Love it! SageAine™
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, SageAine! Please do come back soon and be sure to enter the Indie Author Giveaway Hop (June 13-19) where I'll be offering my latest book Magpie & Dilly. Talk about an adventure! YIKES!! :-)
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