The Return
Hello! So on this, the third anniversary of when I first published Running Hot and the second anniversary of its completion, I return to bring you an all new rewrite in prose!
For all of you newbies the original story was a comic script based on an Omega Ruby Navlocke I played all the way back in 2015. It was also a self-imposed a writing challenge in which I drafted and published all 300,000+ words in exactly a year. It helped me immensely with my drafting and writing in general, so my plan for this prose revamp is to essentially repeat my original challenge to hopefully boost my redrafting and editing skills in the same way. I don’t know if I can manage in it in a year like last time (especially since I’m juggling two other runs atm) but that’s the goal! Wish me luck!
Sometimes in order to move forward, you have to look back. Or at least that’s what Latios says. So when the latest in a series of catastrophes sets her adrift, Ren tries to square with her demons and everything else, good and bad, that led her to this tipping point and plunged her over the edge.
Ren’s story, as she tells it, is about love in all its many forms and permutations. How it soured and broke her, how it warmed and healed her, how it inspired and drove her, and how it’s carried her through—and may well again before the end.
Prologue: There’s A Whisper Where Once There Was A Storm
Ren wakes in a cold sweat. Her head sways unsteadily with disorientation, her breath comes in gasps, and her heartbeat thrums in her ears. She touches her face and chokes back a cry, forces herself to breathe steadily now that she is no longer drowning.
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