The Eternal Chain Chapter 4 First Draft

I've finished the first draft of chapter 4 of The Eternal Chain and you can download it at the bottom of this page.

This chapter follows the same basic structure of the original upon which it was based, however it is very much different from the original. Brand is sent by the innkeeper to hunt down Raven and bring him back for starting the brawl, and one of the Seven arrives, destroying the entire city, killing everyone in it as Brand stands by helpless to do anything about it. He joins Raven not for some weak and vague reason I didnt really think out very well in the original, but for the clear promise of vengeance against the one that did it if he comes.

Something to watch here, is that Brand is having two different types of flashes. Hes having flashes of memories from before his memory was erased, and flashes of things that could not possibly have happened before his memory was erased. The original idea for the original trilogy upon which this book is based was that the villain had control of time itself and had trapped it in a loop called the Eternal Chain. Every time the loop repeats the fabric of time runs a bit more ragged, and sooner of later it's going to snap, and everything will simply cease to be. I didn't really bring much of that into Beyond the Lost Horizon, because it was part of the larger story that I was largely trying to save for the second two books so that the first book could stand alone if needed. I think it's a bit better to have him having flashes of previous lives that he's lived in that loop at the very beginning to establish that something strange is definitely going on. Also, a thing to watch out for is characters feeling deja vu. It's because everything they're experiencing has actually happened to them before, countless times. Every tie a character starts talking about how they feel like this has happened before, it's a warning that something very important to them is about to happen.

Anyway, enjoy =)