more reISH business. Talking to myself about what’s happening and what I’m doing and things that are changing on their own. I’m transcribing the junk I hand-wrote today and scraping a little extra out of it in the process.
bonus snippet at the end of it, whoo
me: ‘man, this is taking a lot longer than last time. … but i guess you shouldn’t rush the decision to abduct/adopt (abdopt!) a child from the side of the road, so okay
Surprise Person Who Wants To Be In This Story is one Johnny C, who stepped out of silent bad brains and threw down some authority out of nowhere while Edgar had everyone on a tightrope above fear town fueled by his new anxiety overdrive button.
It’s one of those things that was not supposed to happen that way, but makes sense with new things that I’ve decided and will be nice for strengthening future business. I’m trying to let myself be looser with the shape of ISH. SWAN was easier to do in a ‘this person does this action’ kind of structure, but ISH is just like ‘I don’t care who, as long as SOMEONE does this, we’re good.’ It’s been weird to see who steps up to do what.
I have to keep an eye on Devi and make sure she gets to do things properly. She has a tendency to be so annoyed and aloof that she’s too irritated to participate in the shenanigans fully and I don’t want her to lag behind anybody development-wise.
So far, Tenna is humor defense-mechanism-ing hardcore. Some of her wacky is just Tenna, but some of it is, ‘wow, i’m terrified! :D’ I hope the difference will be visible just a little.
I was worried to do re-do this story at first because it was where Banshee first cooked into a full person thing, but I think it will ultimately be a better thing. Doing it doesn’t remove where Banshee came from or rewrite her history for me, and I think that was what worried me. But I love the SWAN kids even more now for having done reSWAN, so I think Banshee might get the same result.
and a snip of things
“Okay,” Tenna said, holding her hands out. “What are our options? Leave kid or abduct kid?”
“We’re not abducting anyone,” Devi said.
“Yes, thank you,” Edgar said, relieved.
Jimmy clicked his teeth on his lip ring. “What if we just went to the police or something?”
Devi rolled her eyes. “Police who can’t see us or the kid? What the fuck, Jimmy.”
“I don’t know! It’s what you do with lost kids in malls!”
“Where do you see a mall?” Edgar asked, gesturing widely to the rows of grain outside.
“You’re trying to leave a kid dead on the road!”
Devi gritted her teeth and tried to scream. “Is this fucking opposite day? Mom here wants to leave the kid for roadkill and Jimmy is suggesting we go to the goddamn police.”
“Okay, okay,” Tenna said. “Maybe we can spare a donut or something while we think.” She began rummaging through the bag on the seat next to Jimmy. She looked up with a sudden thought. “Do kids carry rabies? Should we not touch it in case the mom comes back?”
“I’m pretty sure that’s raccoons,” Devi said. “We didn’t get rabies.”
“Or did we?” Tenna joked, pulling out the last of the 24-7 Bagged Donuts. “You don’t know that’s not why we’re invisible.”
