^ New poster by the way. Photo used with permission from Kevin Tze of Flickr.Two quickly uploaded chapters as a pre-Olympic treat ^_^
F&L2 Chapter 13 in Fictionpress and Soompi
F&L2 Chapter 14 in Fictionpress and Soompi
The original plan was to put chapter 13 and 14 together, but it would be impossible because of the length so I decided to cut them into two chapters.
The concept of these chapters was to stress the big contrast between Ayane's seemingly 'split' personality. Chapter 13 talks of a tough Ayane while Chapter 14 shows a frail person behind her seemingly impenetrable shields.
And yes, finally they meet but... hehe.
People, don't kill me. I can't finish this story and I can't watch the Olympics if you kill me now, you know... LOL
I had a hard time in Chapter 14. First, the first-person narration (which is in a female's POV by the way) came a little difficult for me. I had to re-write several lines to make them more feminish.
Second, I had to edit a lot of colors while fixing the post in Soompi. Those [b] and [/center] stuff to format the whole thing came pretty hard, since there were a lot of lines delivered from the Spider Web. I had to color the speaking lines to demarcate them from the actual scenes.
Lastly, it has been always difficult to write an action scene. Like you have to describe how they move, how they kick, how they punch, how they glide and point their guns... It was a lot different from F&L - the feel of writing this chapter. I only had the chance to describe fight scenes with such animation with the Keiko chapters nearing the end. But here in F&L, since we have a new Empress, we had to expect more action chaps... *SIGH*. Writing action fics is a lot harder than writing fantasy and dramas, you know... I hope I did justice to F&L2 at least...
But the conflicts and deception are just about to start. For the next chapter, I will unfold the last love rival on the 'love web' I've been talking about.
You'll never know who it is, hehehehe...
Thank you for reading F&L. I also noticed that there are new readers too, so yeah, welcome and hope you enjoy your stay.
-hiro
