The 18th Chapter

Well... you just can't trust a herrragh, can you. Especially when they team up with a vedrathian ranger, a drinn bounty hunter and a murrahm business... er... person.

Just when I thought I knew everything there was to know about these characters, they did a bit of an about-face.

What happens when you go to rescue your partner from your enemy only to find that your enemy is not who you thought they were? What happens when they want to kill the same person you do and want to enlist your help to do that?

That's what happened to Ranger, Jaxxlar and Vurrahl in the infamous 18th chapter. Ranger, the vedrathian [human], and Vurrahl, the murrahm, gallantly try to rescue Jaxxlar, the drinn, from the clutches of the son of the Alpha-Brizzaal. But they discover that Brashahl is not like his father. Brashahl has an agenda of his own and wants to enlist the help of his father's enemies, the shadow runners, to track down the Alpha's trusted advisor and friend, the Beta-Dorrran.

So now I'm working on chapter 19. Where does that leave me, the writer?

I somehow have to get these guys [+ one girl] back to the stronghold of the shadow runners so they can catch up with the 'not very nice at all' Beta-Dorrran before he succeeds in killing Dennahn, who is the Alpha-Corrrdahl. Turrrvahk, Alpha of the shadow runners, Dennahn's litter-brother, is on his way back to the stronghold with the Beta-Dorrran who he and his brothers know as Shahdhurr, their old family friend and mentor.

Yikes! Looks like I have my work cut out for me. It would help, though, if the characters did what I wanted them to do occasionally.