When I first acquired my current car--a rinkadink 2009 hyundai sonata that had wasted away in someone's garage--I decided I would see what it's capable of by taking it on a roadtrip across the country (gas was cheaper back then, children). So I spent the winter months doing my own maintenance work to get it spruced up, and departed from Chicago around this same time as the weather started to warm up.
On the third morning of my journey, I found myself in a mountain pass just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, poised at the top of a steep, steep slope. Listening to some calming trance music, my machine and I were one singular entity as we raced down that mountain, curving around the bends in the road above steep, unguarded drops into the gorge below at 110mph without ever even veering out of my lane. I had never felt more alive.
Later that afternoon, I did it all over again, racing my old sonata against a modern camaro through the Sierra Nevadas and leaving it in my dust.
Episode 4 was a very interesting challenge for me, having some of the most densely-packed action scenes in the series so far. Good practice, but a small part of me worries that the feeling of racing through the mountains that I wanted to convey was lost somewhere along the many, many necessary rewrites needed to make it presentable. I'm content with the final results, and I've got places to be and promises to keep so it's time for me to head out.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CFesQTjqUyRAuZ5mZzhOdB90_FNGH1ZxJDc2xX2BICo/edit?usp=sharingWith Episode 4's conclusion, we are officially at the halfway point for Eons in Flux. Does this mean I'm only publishing four more episodes? No, there's still plenty of gaiden episodes to write, and who knows where the future takes us? I'll color in the splash art tomorrow, I promise. Unless someone else gets to it first.
Let's remember to live each day, /tog/.
