Date: November 21 2018 12:02 AM Title: Chapter 28...A New Hope Pt. 3
Wow, that was epic! I love that one of the chapters was written in reverse. Cool technique. Lots of unexpected moments like Ritchie's death and resurrection. Hope was an interesting character. God-like power with an innocent child's mind.
Ikaros kind of came out of nowhere but I assume there was foreshadowing for that earlier (been a while since I read the other chapters). I assume this was the conclusion of the story. Excellent work. I enjoyed the world you created, all the mythologies blended within it, and I truly cared about the characters.
Author's Response:
Surprise surprise! It's not the last chapter. The next one his though. The last chapter will show a little of what happened 5 years later and possibly set up a continuation in the future.
I did drop very subtle hints that a larger power was at work in the two previous chapters. The mysterious voice compelling the girls to bring their children along was the biggest one. As for Ikaros, when Pele described the terrible fallout from her siblings using etherion on one another. Her youngest brother dead and the subsequent vow to give birth to magical races to safeguard the world from etherion. We learned that Ikaros gave birth to the Fae and Pele herself the menehune but the fate of her oldest brother (who gave birth to the Alux) remains to be seen.