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Brandon King
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The Quest for the Temple Key
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author Insight
Adaptations Under Duress
Adapting is hard. Humans are generally not thrilled about change. As creatures of habit, even our fondness for those habits...is a habit. So, disruptions to our routines are not welcomed with joy and eagerness. Yet, it is often from those very disruptions that we grow, individually and even collectively. Still, it's under duress that we reach new insights, grow, progress forward, learn...and fall into new habits. In this excerpt from The Quest for the Temple Key, there's a confluence of adaptations (from both sides of the conflict!). Peter is talking himself through the frightful dilemma he and the others must face. At first, his totally understandable fear for the welfare of his daughter triggers a surge of anger and he wants someone or something to pay for it. We observe him pause, realizing there’s another challenge he’s got to deal with. Before anything useful can happen, Peter must first adapt—like I often do, and maybe you too—by rejecting his powerful desire to blame someone. Until he let’s that go, he can’t clearly think and adapt to their new challenge. There's a lesson there we all would do well to remember. #letangergo #think #adapt #mindoveremotions #faith #grit #fearisthemindkiller #ragedestroys #fantasy #epicadventure #readabook
Book Excerpt
The Quest for the Temple Key
“OK, let me see if I’m getting this,” Peter said, frustration in his voice. “We were attacked…here, even though you have strong defenses around the Ten Pinnacles, because Kahrnahrgx and his followers are desperate.” He glared at Kimar, struggling hard with the impulse to blame someone for what happened to Freida.
“Yes,” Kimar answered.
“Well, it seems not so desperate as incredibly bold!” he said, beginning to engage his mind over his shaken emotions. “And your sentries, or guards, or whatever you call them, only became aware of the attack moments before it took place, because the enemy found a way to hide plans of his attack somehow.”
“Yes,” Kimar said again.
“And the reason for the attack was to capture…Danielle,” Peter continued, his voice catching at his daughter’s name. “But they took Freida, at great cost to their troops, because they’re convinced that Freida, not Danielle, is the Chosen One.”
“Given that Danielle was not here at the time of the attack, but with Lohxnahr and Zarentil, there was no question that they would take the one human female child they found,” the great gargoyle explained.
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