Endings are a bitch and a half for me. I want to keep going when the story is over, or I end up just stopping, so getting this to a nice end point was difficult to say the least.
I think I got there in the end. However, as you can see the story is not over, not by a long shot. We still have to deal with what is coming. We have the Horror under the house, very similar to the monsters under the bed that most children fear. There were the beings in the Prologue… and now, we have the infinite monster that was one of H.P. Lovercraft’s largest monsters: Yog Sothoth.
Who knows how all of this will turn out?
A lot of the facts in this story are true. A Wolcott and a Huntington signed the U.S.’s Declaration of Independence but obviously their families did not unleash hell in New England. Princess Sophia was a princess of Great Britain and did not have children as I understood her life. Obviously, the White House did burn down, and President Madison thought it was a great blow to our country, so I put on my conspiratorial cap and made up a fun reason for how funding was appropriated.
Beyond that, I thought why not take some of these real life facts and mess with them a little bit to make a compelling narrative.
From the scores, it says you guys liked it. IF you enjoyed this story, please give a rating and leave a comment. I should have a personally edited version of the story up by the end of the month, but I will be editing (with an editor friend of mine and one more rewrite by me) this story a lot before next year and will re-upload it before the sequel.
After which, I plan to have written and released the sequel: The Tragedy of Dreibruch (this is a working title and may change; sorry for that).
I think of some stories as just a book or serial. This one is closer to seasons of television, so this was more about establishing our heroes in Thomas and Silas. From the scores, it is clear that most of you guys like Thomas Wilson, which I am glad. He was a hard character to craft. My intention was to make someone with integrity without becoming a caricature. Silas was an interesting character as getting people to root for an aimless millionaire can be difficult.
Regardless of how things panned out, I am glad for all that enjoyed it, and I am sorry for those that did not.
Oh! And the Verbena is Vervaine, which I decided to co-opt from The Vampire Diaries. I could not help but pay homage to a franchise that did understand how to blend the magical with the vampiric.
As always, I genuinely want to thank you all for your support.
For more of my stories, give Tales of Olympus a chance if you enjoy mythological tellings.
If nothing else, here’s hoping to see you guys for the The Coup continuing next month or The Tragedy of Dreibuch or the Fallout FanFiction I said I might be posting sometime next year.
Thank you again; rate accordingly, and I look forward to the comments and to seeing everyone on the next story.
C.S.