Sangria 29, White Chocolate 24, Lemon-Lime Sorbet 11 [Divide and Rule]

[lost_spook]

Title: Weekend Break
Author: lost_spook
Story: Heroes of the Revolution (Divide & Rule)
Flavor(s): Sangria #29 (All hope abandon, ye who enter here), White Chocolate #24 (malevolence), Lemon-Lime Sorbet #11 (a night to remember)
Toppings/Extras: Brownie + Chopped Nuts + Malt - January Games Week III (Edward/Julia - supernatural au & lost weekend) + Birthday

Comments

[roisin_farrell]

Oh, that last line from Diana. This is very well done and I love how bad ass Julia is with the salt and the fire.

[lost_spook]

Thank you! And Diana was mostly very good about not saying I told you so, but she couldn't help it, really...

[winebabe]

For someone who’d never committed arson before, she now seemed to be going about it wholesale.

Ha! What a great line. Demonic spirits and the like aren't really my thing, but this was a captivating read! Edward and Julia are a dynamic duo.

[lost_spook]

Thank you! And I don't know if they're really mine, but I have definitely watched way too many 1960s/70s action serials and quaint English villages always have either dodgy covens, mad scientists holed up somewhere, or the military have vanished everyone and it's an amusing thought, really...

[fachefaucheux]

Woo! This was awesome! I loved all the humor sprinkled around in it...the bit about dodgy Latin especially. And needing to emigrate if they intended on avoiding quaint villages for the rest of their lives.

And sacrificial politicians! I wonder what kind of demon that was, then...

[lost_spook]

Aw, thank you! I'm so glad you liked it. I thought it might be rather more in your line than my usual stuff here! :-)

And, aha, I don't know, but it seemed like a reasonable idea at the time.

[oonaseckar]

they seemed to have a puncture.
Convenient! Although a teashop that makes human sacrifices of all its customers isn't going to do such great business, surely? How on earth do they stay in the black? That's one Satanic business plan, all right.

Aw, and it's 'Ned' now. Bless. Getting comfy!

ceremony involving some highly questionable Latin
Yes. Why are devil-worshippers so dim? The only couple of that persuasion I ever met - I'm looking for a civil way to put this - would have had trouble getting through Enid Blyton, never mind Aleister Crowley.

their particular, ah, deity has a taste for politicians.
Well, you have to empathise a bit. I can see their point. I'm sure our goose-stepping current PM would make a lovely Satanic morsel.

pull her hands lose.
Typo.

the altar cloth which evidently had oil on it from one of the dishes.
Did I miss something? What dishes?

yes, a demon. Just because they’re rare in Kent doesn’t mean they don’t exist. I’d tried to tell myself that it wasn’t true - that sort of thing had all gone

[lost_spook]

Aw, thank you for reading! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I found it fun to do as well. :-)

Convenient! Although a teashop that makes human sacrifices of all its customers isn't going to do such great business, surely? How on earth do they stay in the black?

Well, as I hope became clear, they don't sacrifice all their customers, it's just that Edward as a proper politician was too good a candidate to be ignored. I assumed the puncture was not an accident, either.

You would have to sympathise with people sacrificing politicians. It, er, seemed kind of logical and fun as an idea to me at the time, but then lots of things do... (Not that I was at all feeling like doing anything to our current gov't obv.)

the altar cloth which evidently had oil on it from one of the dishes.
Did I miss something? What dishes?

I think I said there was oil burning there; I assumed it was in something. (Lazy author: did I have to say that out loud??)

It would be interesting if an alternative revolution was a revolution against a demon-ruled fascist