The first cut of this novel is complete.  I'm working on the second cut.

30 September 2009  I decided to change the name of this novel to Warrior of Light.  This parallels the other novels and gets rid of goddess from the title.  

23 Feb 09 Sveta has learned. Sveta was the problem. Perhaps now she can be the solution. It requires that she become the servant. She has never been the servant, only the recipient. Sveta learned and now she must be the perfect Chinese servant or her sister and her warrior will die.

22 Feb 09 I have been writing feverishly on Ceridwen since I was in Florida. I'm up to chapter 17 and preparing for the denouncement. Meanwhile, one of my readers went through Children and gave it two thumbs up. Children is one of my favorites and the current novel continues the Sveta/Klava thing from Children.

14 Feb 09 If you didn't get enough of Yinglong in The Shadow of Light you get some more here. Near the end of his last session at Sandhurst, Daniel receives a letter from Kathrin. Kathrin and Bruce want Daniel to rescue Sveta and Klava. Sveta and Klava went to China without telling anyone. Kathrin knows what they are about, and she knows Sveta can't succeed without her warrior. The agreement before Sveta can marry Daniel, is that he must finish Sandhurst, get a job in the organization, and Sveta must not take him before marriage. If Daniel goes to rescue them, he is AWOL from Sandhurst and will have no job with the organization. Sveta has officially rejected him, so there is no chance of hanky-panky--or is there.

12 Feb 09 You knew there had to be a tiff and a breakup. Sveta is very angry at Daniel. I won't say why. They all graduated from the Sixth Form, and Daniel is off at Sandhurst for British Officer training. He is a blank assignment cadet. He was trained by Colonel Bolang for two summers, and you can guess how good that training was. The tiff occurs after the second 15 week session at Sandhurst. Sveta and Klava are at Oxford. Bruce Lyons was replaced due to forced retirement at the organization. Charles Pevensy is the head now. Lumie're met Pevensy in Geneva in The Shadow of Light. She didn't like him then, you won't like him now.

9 Feb 09 Sveta has chosen her warrior--luckily Daniel doesn't know it. Daniel has skills that he never pursued before, Paul Bolang introduces him to them and begins to make him a master of them. Now, how will Klava keep Sveta in check? How will Daniel continue his training in England? What about their time in the Sixth Form? Klava found her tablet, by the way, and she has found Lumie're and Aleksandr.

4 Feb 09 The new character is Daniel Long. He is 16 and now friends with the 14 year old Klava and Sveta. Sveta finally reached puberty and is allowed to go to America to study with Leora for the summer. Daniel Long is busy under the tutelage of Klava and Sveta trying to determine just what his father, Terrance Long, does. Daniel gained freedom when he left his old school. His father and mother are both amazed at the change in him. Klava and Sveta invite him to come to America with them. Tilly is the chaperone.

The purpose of each of the Aegypt novels is to allow you, the reader, to live the life and times portrayed in the novel.  This requires intensive research and study.  Many of the points are ancillary, and may be unnoticed by the reader, but to me they are critical.  Here is how carefully I have detailed these works: in The Goddess of Darkness, I needed the name of the Greek ambassador to England in 1940.  I couldn't find this information anywhere--I wrote to the Greek embassy in London England, and in about two weeks, I had the answer.  This was an unnecessary detail, but this represents how detailed the historical research was for these books. 

The Question: 

The Aegypt novels are moving in a beautiful and controlled direction.  Their purpose is to let the reader live during a period and place in history.  Specifically, they march through time, hitting the high points where evil has touched the world.  Children is a setup novel.  It is a transition between The Shadow of Light and the next big point in time.  Below, I outline the question that originally drove Aegypt.  There is much more here. 

The primary question I asked when I wrote Children was:  what happens when I introduce two real immature goddesses into the world of Western Civilization and specifically--British society.  One may be evil and one may be good.  What is their mother, any mother to do.  I especially wanted to depict the school adventures of these girls.

When the world was young, people believed in all kinds of gods and goddesses.  In the novel Sister of Light, I expand the question I asked in Aegypt, what would happen if modern people came face to face with a real goddess.  Leora, the goddess of light, interacts with the modern world--sometimes that world is more cruel to those who have a power beyond our expectations.  Also, I added to my original question and ask a new one about prejudice.  Explicitly, the question in Sister of Light is what is the reaction of the goddess of darkness against her sister, Leora.

The Characters: 

These characters are generally new to Aegypt.  We met Kathrin in The Shadow of Light.  Her character and purpose flows from this inauspicious beginning.  The girls, Sveta and Klava come from the last bit of The Shadow of Light.  You could have guessed at what might happen to their parents.  Lumie're is absolutely rogue.  You thought motherhood would change her, how could that be.  The real surprise is Kathrin.  This is her novel, but the following will likely be hers too.

The Theme: 

The children of Lumie're and Aleksandr are found alive after many years.  One may be the goddess of darkness and bring great evil into the world.  What happens when they are introduced into the civilized world.  There is much more to this novel's theme that I won't reveal.  I will tell you, it is a theme of place, that is, taking one's appropriate place in the world.  

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