Suitable Cadaver

Now, returning to George and Johnstone, who were watching Chips closely as he was struggling for breath. They followed Peter-Pietro into the adjoining lab and watched him enter the cadaver through its nose. As soon as it moved, they both knew they were watching something they had not seen before.

“Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” George said to Johnstone with a voice thick with want. Neither of the two had reconciled to death, being far too invested in the lives they knew.

As they watched the Asian man push his way out from the glass box they nodded to one another in assent.

“Looks like we have ourselves a project” said Johnstone rubbing his bald head, thinking out loud. George pulled out his pocket book and scribbled, “Project rebirth. 1. Find a suitable cadaver.”

“Got it” he said.


- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

The Human Path

Puck was unusually adept with his transactions - his evolution had taken him into the human path, to the point where he not only shared blood with them, but also karma.

There became a certain compelling to follow. Even if he had wanted, he could not simply retire to the etheric world, and live out the next decade of centuries, removed from their strife. No, he was involved.

-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

Spirits have a Knack

Spirits have a knack of being able to teleport to where the action is with rapid enterprise. It is not a conscious action most of the time - but more an energetic response to the life around them.

Whether it is active in the other worldly spheres or on the earth plane, a spirit can glide into events within milliseconds of this happening.

A good example of this is of earthly catastrophes, whereupon thousands and sometimes hundreds of thousands, of spirits will be drawn to a site of unusual activity. You can see them watching on.

And for the humans who cross over during those episodes of calamity, they only perceive a body of light at that time - not being able to distinguish the faces within that light.

Similarly the beings of Faerie can wilfully drop in and out of worldly life, remaining for the most part, invisible to it.

-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

George Befriended

Johnstone Senior had no idea that he had passed away leaving his extraordinary enterprise to his young, and only son. He worked harder than ever- very similarly to George the retired health inspector, who along the way had befriended him.

George accompanied Johnstone to every session, shadowing his newly-found friend and mentor. For what was a laboratory and manufactory but another type of kitchen?

A very sophisticated kitchen, George thought appreciatively, who was finally amongst the order and cleanliness he had yearned for- sanitary, ordered, a measured scientific establishment.

And because George was the only one to actually speak with Johnstone Senior, he accepted him as his assistant and confidant.

The two had quickly become inseparable.

- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

Dream Romance

Charley had dreams - all kinds of dreams … some that were so real she could never be sure … and then there were the kind where she would picture herself in the arms of that one man who loved her and knew her like no other.

This man could see right into her soul, and accept her for the halfling she was.

He would be poetic, but not a poet. Masculine, yet never angry or forceful. He could be a master of words - though hardly speak. He would want her with the most urgent desire, yet wait for her to come to him.

This man was someone she could spend days with in perfect contentedness, in a space between them that was theirs alone.

When was it she had first begun to have feelings for Francis? She could not recall, only that now, right now, she wanted him to love her in return.


-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

Elf-publishing

Self-publishing took on a whole other meaning when it came to the Elvish. Within minutes their works can manifest in a snap and they will be on the shelves.

One way of identifying a magical work is to examine its isbn - and if it has thirty three numbers you will know it is a book that is printed in fairyland.

Elves never interfere with the common laws of men.


-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

Pondering

“Thus it was called pondering."

He stopped writing, and looked at this last sentence in a satisfied way.

In his spare time Puck had been penning a manuscript - a sort of self-help novella that he visualised as being the year’s number one bestseller.

There was of course an Amazonian raft of advice-type books and a sea of subjective philosophy upon which that raft bobbed and bounced upon.

However Puck himself enjoyed his own thought - so much so, he felt obliged to share it.


- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances