What were your feelings,
when the mission first began, toward the people you traveled with through the
deserts?
What
a pack of idiots. I mean, we’re taught our whole lives to stay away from the
Deserts – what in Zola’s name could have possibly been going though their heads
to agree to such a fool-hardy mission – nothing, that’s what! To this day I
firmly believe that they lost a grip on all their faculties. I honestly don’t
know what Dezmind said to get them to set aside such culturally resonant fear,
but he did it.
Why did you want your
best friend, Zaith, to come along on the mission?
It’s
not so much that I wanted her to come (okay maybe that was part of it) but more that I expected her to come. She was so
caught up in this Spoken Truth crap that even she fell for Dezmind’s spell –
then again, she never could let a lead go cold and this was one heck of a story.
Besides, other than Merik the others in the Kahn-lea were blinded by Dezmind’s
beliefs and even Merik was willing to set aside commonsense just to be able to
write something ‘new’ poetically. He was his own kind of crazy… I just wanted
familiar crazy – Zaith would have kept me sane.
During the trek through
the Deserts, you relied heavily on your research of M. Doire. What can you tell
us about him?
The
man was methodical. His attention to detail when tracking his progress and his
findings rivaled my own. It was almost like he was searching for something or
sending a message in his notes – you can
survive. It resonated with me and gave me hope. This was a man I could rely on.
You were a strong
believer in the Kronik. When did you begin to become disillusioned with your
beliefs?
Growing
up I bought into the rhetoric and dogma with ease but what made it so easy to
trust the Kronik was knowing that I wouldn’t have survived on my own without
the institutions it put in place. Working in the Zerillitite Mines was bad for
my health and bone-drudgingly weary but it gave me hope and a sense of purpose
that was only fulfilled when I joined the CTF and actually excelled in the
programs. I had no reason not to trust my government – until I met Zaith. She
showed me that it was possible to still revere “the man” but admit that
sometimes he made mistakes. That was huge and I wanted to be a part of it.
Interview provided by: Debra Mauldin
Synopsis:
Taya
A loyal and dedicated government contractor
extraordinaire, learns of the fate
of the planet while on a top-secret job
working as a lab tech for a disreputed scientist.
Dezmind
A Talian government dissenter who claims the
only way to save their dying world
is to trust a set of ancient documents lost
long ago in the forbidding Deserts.
Zaith
A reporter covering the story of a lifetime
following a lead that could mean more
than breaking the biggest story to hit the
planet since the Nine Seas Massacre.
Fate, destiny and truth collide with 2000
year old secrets the government will do anything to keep buried. When Taya is
forced to accept a contract that will be a death sentence for anyone involved,
she unwittingly becomes a catalyst in a game she never wanted to play. As she
leads a false prophet and his followers on a mission doomed from the start, she
learns far more about herself and her world than she ever thought possible.
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