I hope your holiday season has been full of good times, family, peaceful moments and happiness! Best wishes for a very Happy New Year ahead!
Here’s the link to the Weekend Writing Warriors central page, so you can visit all the participants sharing excerpts today…a fun way to sample new books and find new authors! (Also welcome to the Sunday Snippet visitors!)
Continuing with science fiction romance today. Here’s an excerpt from Lady of the Star Wind, an epic portal fantasy, which is undergoing a final edit and will be released after Star Cruise: Outbreak sometime early next year.
Sandy and Mark have been transported to an unknown world after breaking the Globe of Amarkana (you may remember those excerpts earlier in the year?). They found themselves in an oasis-like area with no exit. This snippet is from quite a bit further in the novel, after Mark and Sandy have left the mysterious mountain oasis (which wasn’t a zoo after all), in the company of some new friends… Sandy is bitten by a snake, went into the green light with a woman unknown to her and now is sitting in a room she’s never seen before:
Voices came from the hallway, and Sandy decided her best course of action was to seek out the other people. Before she could leave the chair’s deeply cushioned embrace, however, four women entered the room as if dancing, so light and graceful were their movements. Arguing amongst themselves in a language Sandy didn’t comprehend, the newcomers talked over each other.
“Excuse me,” Sandy said in Outlier, cutting through the chatter as she rose. “Where am I? Where’s Mark?”
The quartet swung to face her, and Sandy was struck by the likeness each had to the others, clearly sisters, although the eye and hair colors differed. The tallest stepped forward and answered her in the unknown tongue.
Sandy shook her head. “I’m sorry, I don’t understand.”
I’ll keep going with this scene for a few more weeks and then we can go back to excerpts from Star Cruise: Outbreak, which is my current WIP.
Oh wow, what a place to find yourself. Great snippet, Veronica. 🙂
Great snippet–I can feel her frustration at not being able to understand.
I hope they find a way to communicate satisfactorily. I imagine a lot of body language may be involved, unless someone’s able to translate.
I am looking forward to watching how you deal with the differences and difficulties in communication. Brilliant, as always, Veronica!
Intriguing scene. The mystery continues. 🙂
A language barrier — something else to throw at your poor characters. You mean author, you. 🙂
Amping up the intrigue! Glad you’re continuing with this awhile longer because there’s still lots to find out!
Oooo, interesting… I wonder what they were arguing about, and what they’ll do now that Sandy has seen them. 😉
The image of the women is both beautiful and kind of creepy. Nice tension as this scene unfolds.
Leave it to you, Veronica, to add more strangers in the story. Fascinating turn of events. And what happens next, my friend?
It’s such a human, but unhelpful impulse. Sometimes, perhaps, someone will speak your language… but most of the time, you won’t be able to communicate.
Ah, I see her problem. She forgot to stick a babelfish in her ear.
Great snippet. Language can be such a barrier. And are the women sisters? More and more intriguing.
great detail on not being able to understand the language- with Star Wars and Star Trek – we figure aliens speak English – lol.
Love the detail on the chair – its deep embrace – those are the best kind of chairs – especially on a cold miserable day like today.
She needs a translator!
That would be frustrating not being able to understand them. Hopefully they’ll figure a way to communicate. Enjoyed the snippet.
Once my husband and I got lost in Germany. We stopped at a little cafe to figure out where we were. The waitress spoke no English, we spoke no German, so she put on her glasses, cleared her throat, and used her finger to point out each menu choice. All the while she was reading very slowly in German. Where’s a good translator when you need one?
Interesting …. i’d be frustrated, too, if I couldn’t understand the other person.
Love the descriptive detail..and hmm, what are they arguing about? Her?? Intriguing snippet. 🙂
the similarities between the women gives me a weird feeling, almost like manufactured? And the language,, frustrating. Lots of intrigue.
Oooh, mysterious. Me thinks someone is hallucinating something fierce right about now. I get the feeling this is going to twist into something a bit more scary as how dreams turn to nightmares, especially with the similarities between the women, gives it an eerie feeling, the unknown language to her adds to that. Or maybe it’ll give her some warning or message of what’s to come? I’m interested, very interested!
Wonder what’s going on and whether or not these ‘sisters’ will help! Nice snippet.
Hum, that snake has a strange effect. I wonder how she is going to get out of this one.
Love the description — and the communication problem. I’m looking forward to reading more.