"Snare" on Bookish Temptations! @BookTemptations

Snare's been reviewed on Bookish Temptations!

Katiebird wrote a lovely review for my vamp story and for The Agreement by Badjujube.

You can find the complete post in this week's Fanfic Friday:

http://bookishtemptations.com/2014/04/04/fan-fic-friday-snare-and-the-agreement/

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Steelward - a different Vampward from #Snare

When I was writing Snare (now complete!), I wanted something different than Canon sparkly vamps. Instead of glittery diamond dust, I thought about steel as a way to show how Edward looks under direct sunlight.

This is the way Edward looks (chapter 27):

As the sun hit his skin, it reflected the light, as if his body had been molded from smooth steel. [...] Had it not been for his gaze, [...] he would have been the most beautiful statue...

The lovely Montara created and sent me some pictures of Steelward.

Pictures by Montara (Thank you!!!)

I used the pictures to create a blinkie:

 

Here's another picture: Steelward on a rock (without his clothes):

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Snare -- Epilogue

They say that everything comes to an end...

I hope you'll enjoy the Epilogue: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/32/

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

Qui finisce l'avventura
del profiler testa dura.
Col vampiro, con sua figlia,
immortale fan famiglia.

It’s the end of the adventure
of the stubborn profiler.
With the vampire and his daughter, now reborn,
an immortal family they will form.

Reviewers get a little gift

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Snare 31 -- Your Choice

How are Bella and Edward spending their time together? Edward is going to make an important promise. The new chapter is ready: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/31/

She was that single flower that the poet couldn't send to his readers from a different time.

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

Ormai i giochi sono fatti
tutti i dadi sono tratti:
per aver l' eterno amore
lui dovrà fermarle il cuore.

That’s all folks, and at length,
decisions have been made with strength:
to gain eternal love, to start,
he will have to stop her heart.

The Epilogue is due to be posted next week!

Reviewers get a little gift.

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Unending Love, by Rabindranath Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,
Its ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever.

-x-x-x-x-x-x-

The Gardener [85], by Rabindranath Tagore

Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?
I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds.
Open your doors and look abroad.

From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.
In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across an hundred years.

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Snare 30 -- The Last Human

You gave VampCharlie a warm welcome, but how will Bella react? Get your answer: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/30/

In this chapter Edward is going to talk about his piano

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

Al sicuro in Canadà
Bella vuole il suo papà;
ma è difficile pensarlo
com'è ora, ed accettarlo.

Safe, away in Canada,
Bella thinks about her Papa.
But learning what has come to pass
is hard for her to take, alas.

The new chapter is due to be posted in just one week!

Reviewers get a little gift.

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Snare 29 -- Scuba Diver

Charlie's story isn't over. This chapter will tell you why: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/29/

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

Ora ad Edward tutto dice
la vampira buona Alice.
Il mistero è rivelato:
Charlie è stato trasformato.

Now Alice, of the good vampires,
answers Edward when he inquires.
At last the mystery has a solution:
Charlie’s gone through the transformation.

The new chapter is due to be posted in just one week!

Reviewers get a little gift.

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Snare 28 -- To The Lighthouse

Edward, Bella, and a night in a very special place. Read chapter 28 to follow them in their journey: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/28/

In this chapter a female vampire is going to show up. Here's a picture:

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

Sono in fuga i nostri amanti
e i pericoli son tanti.
La vampira che gli appare
li vuol perdere o salvare?

Our lovers have now run away,
and many dangers upon them prey.
Another vampire shows her face:
Enemy? Ally? Which is the case?

In this chapter, Bella and Edward will stay at the hotel Bellwether in Bellingham:

http://www.hotelbellwether.com/rooms-suites/

They actually have a Lighthouse Suite!

The Bellis Fair Mall is real: http://www.bellisfair.com/

Bella's dress:

Edward's sweater:

The new chapter is due to be posted in two weeks.

Reviewers get a little gift.

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Snare 27 -- Here Comes the Sun

Edward, Bella, and the sun. Sparks will fly in chapter 27!  http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/27/

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

 Immortale con umana
può parere cosa strana
mentre invece vanno a mille:
nudi, insieme, fan faville.

Human and immortal,
it might seem quite unusual;
instead they are a perfect match:
bared, together, sparks will catch.

The new chapter is due to be posted in two weeks.

Reviewers get a little gift.

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Snare 26 -- Esme

Esme's story is revealed in chapter 26...and it is a sad one.  http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/26/

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

 Or l'dea s'è presentata:
se in vampira trasformata
sempre insieme potran stare
e la morte cancellare.

 A new idea now comes to mind:
if she becomes one of his kind,
they'll be able to stay together forever
and death itself they'll surely conquer.

The new chapter is due to be posted in two weeks.

Reviewers get a little gift.

Petrarch's Poems - mentioned in the chapter

Alone and thoughtful, through the most desolate fields,

I go measuring out slow, hesitant paces,

and keep my eyes intent on fleeing

any place where human footsteps mark the sand.

I find no other defence to protect me

from other people’s open notice,

since in my aspect, whose joy is quenched,

they see from outside how I flame within.

So now I believe that mountains and river-banks

and rivers and forests know the quality

of my life, hidden from others.

Yet I find there is no path so wild or harsh

that love will not always come there

speaking with me, and I with him.

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What must I do? What do you counsel, Love?

The time has truly come to die,

and I have lingered longer than I wish.

My lady is dead, and my heart with her:

and if I wish to follow,

I must interrupt this cruel life,

since I have no more hope

of seeing her here, and waiting galls me.

Now all my joy

has turned to weeping at her going,

all sweetness has been taken from my life.

Love, you feel how deep and bitter

is this loss, where I grieve with you:

and know the weight and pain of my ill,

or rather ours, because a reef

has shattered the vessel,

and in a moment our sun is darkened.

What ingenuity with words

could express my grievous state?

Ah, blind, thankless world,

you’ve good reason to weep with me,

since what was beautiful in you is lost with her.

Fallen is your glory, and you do not see it,

nor were you worthy, while she

lived here, to have known her,

nor even to have been touched by her sacred feet,

because so lovely a thing

had to adorn heaven with her presence.

But I, alas, who without her

cannot love mortal life or myself,

weep cruelly for her:

this is all I have of all my hopes,

and this alone is what still keeps me here.

Ah me, that lovely face is turned to dust,

that used to be the pledge to us,

down here, of heaven and its good:

her form, invisible in paradise,

freed from that veil,

that shadowed the flower of her years,

later to be worn once more,

and never more relinquished.

when we shall see her again

dear and lovely, more, by as much

as eternal beauty exceeds mortal.

She returns, more lovely and more graceful

a lady, within me, where

she feels the sight of herself is more exalted.

This is one pillar of my life,

the other her bright name

that sounds so sweetly in my heart.

But recalling in my mind

that my hope is truly dead, living

while she flowered,

Love knows what I become, and she (I hope)

can see it now who is so near to Truth.

Ladies, you who have seen her beauty

and the angelic life

that heavenly one lived on earth,

show me your grief, and be overcome

by pity, not for here who leapt

into such peace, but for me left in this war:

so that if the way

to follow her is barred to me for long

only Love, speaking with me,

stops me from severing the knot.

For he reasons like this inside me:

‘Rein in the great grief that transports you,

lest your over-riding desire

loses you heaven, to which your heart aspires,

where she lives who seems dead to others,

and smiles to herself at her

own lovely leavings, and only sighs for you:

and prays that her fame, that breathes

still in many places, through your words,

is not extinguished,

rather that, if her eyes were ever dear

and sweet to you, your voice illuminate her name.’

Flee the fresh and blithe,

don’t go near laughter or song,

my song, but weep:

don’t take your place among happy people,

widow, disconsolate, in your black dress.

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Snare 24 -- Plans

New vampires are featured in chapter 24. What are they going to do to our beloved characters? http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/24/

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

L'assistente sciagurato
dai Volturi è catturato;
spiega tutta la faccenda
e diventa la merenda.


Charlie’s assistant, the prick,
the Volturi capture, all too quick;
all he knows he will reveal,
then he’ll become a tasty meal.

The new chapter is due to be posted in two weeks.

Reviewers get a little gift.

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Snare 23 -- Mindreader

Edward talks openly about his mindreading abilities in chapter 23. How does it affect his choices? http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/23/

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

ll vampiro, che ha mangiato,
anche a Bella ha poi pensato.
Dopo fatta colazione
dei Volturi fa menzione.

After a snack, the vampire proceeds

to think about his Bella’s needs.

Breakfast time for the human,

then they have a Volturi discussion.

 

 

The new chapter is due to be posted in two weeks.

Reviewers get a little gift.

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Snare 22 -- Predator

Edward's showing his vampire nature in chapter 22. Are you upset? http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/22/

What's wrong?” Bella asked, alarmed, taking a halting step down the corridor.
He raised his hands in front of himself. “Don't move,” he warned.

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

Lo psicologo immortale
ha una casa niente male;
ma la sete s'è destata
e da sola l'ha lasciata.

The psychologist immortal
owns a house most beautiful;
but his thirst comes back full force,
and Bella he must leave perforce.

The new chapter is due to be posted in less than two weeks.

Reviewers get a little gift.

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Snare 21 -- Into the Woods

I hope this chapter will surprise you... go read chapter 21: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/21/

  

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

L'assistente vuol parlare
con i media, e guadagnare.
Lei, scoprendo quant’è losco,
col vampir fugge nel bosco.

To the media Walsh will talk now,
he really wants to milk that cash cow.
When Bella sees his swarmy nature,
she flies to the woods with her vampire.

The new chapter is due to be posted in less than two weeks.

Reviewers get a little gift.

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Snare 20 -- Doubts

More problems ahead...are you up for a bumpy ride? Chapter 20 is ready: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/20/

"How can I believe you?" Her words held a desperate plea. Make me believe you.

  

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

Or che il padre le è sparito
forse morto, oppur rapito,
lei non sa se può fidarsi
del vampiro, o disperarsi.


Since her father has gone missing,
dead, abducted, no way of knowing,
she doesn’t know if she can trust
the vampire, or lose hope she must.

The new chapter is due to be posted in two weeks.

Reviewers get a little gift.

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Snare 19 -- Missing

This isn't a merry chapter, but I'd like to thank you for your trust and support. Your comments are welcome! Chapter 19 is waiting for you: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/19/

 

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

Or l'amico han "suicidato"
o così sembra sia stato.
C'è per Bella un'altra prova:
anche Charlie non si trova!

By his own hand, a friend is deceased,
or that’s the way it appears, at least.
And now there's a new sorrow for Bella:
Charlie is missing, the dear fella.

The new chapter is due to be posted in two weeks.

Reviewers get a little gift.

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Snare 18 -- Saturday

More about Charlie, a jazz concert for Bella, and a new meeting between Edward and Bella. Chapter 18 is available: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/18/

"Do you know jazz?"Edward grinned. "I may I have listened to a CD or two." He doubted there were many compilations of good musicians he didn't know everything about. "Was there a particular song that piqued your interest?"

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

Dacché un bacio si son dati
sono entrambi innamorati
ma il destino sembra duro,
senza gioia il lor futuro.

Since the kiss they shared,
between them love has flared.
But their destiny seems gloomier,
with no joy in their future.

The new chapter is due to be posted in two weeks.

Reviewers get a little gift.

Ella Fitzgerald singing Someone To Watch Over Me

Edward quotes Horace's Odes, 1.9

You can read the original Latin version here: http://rainybluedawn.com/translations/latin/odes1ix.htm

See how the deep snow shines on Mount Soracte! The toiling woods can bear the load no longer, and the streams stand still in the sharp ice.
Dispel the cold, O Thaliarchus – quick, pile up the logs – and bring the four-year-aged unmixed wine out in a Sabine jar. The rest give to the gods, who, when they still the winds at war upon the boiling sea, leave mountain ash and cypress trees untouched. Don’t ask about tomorrow. Take what comes, and count it gain; and in your youth don’t turn away from dance or from sweet love affairs, so long as sour age stays far away from your green strength. Let streets and fields and soft nocturnal whispers have their appointed times, and perhaps sweet hidden laughter may reveal a prize to take from off the arms or fingers of a girl pretending to resist.

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Snare 17 - Set Him Free

Do you want to know more about Alice's conversation with Charlie? How are Edward and Bella going to spend their last moments together? Chapter 17 is ready: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/17/

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

Al profiler la veggente
tutto svela immantinente:
se il vampir libererà
la sua vita salverà.


On the spot, the psychic vampire
reveals all to the profiler.
If he sets the vampire free,
His own existence spared will be.

The new chapter is due to be posted in two weeks.

Reviewers get a little gift.

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Snare 16 -- Exception

Things between Edward and Bella are progressing. Chapter 16 features them opening up: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/16/

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

Può fuggire il prigioniero
se non fosse per il fiero
sentimento che ha per Bella
del suo cuore ormai la stella.


The prisoner could run away,
but fierce passion o'er him holds sway,
passion for the woman who
is his heart's star, through and through.

The new chapter is due to be posted in two weeks.

Reviewers get a little gift.

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Snare 15 -- Face to Face

The rest of Garrett's story is going to be revealed. Chapter 15 is ready: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/15/

Garrett

Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

Il vampiro innanzi a Bella
le dà un po' di tremarella;
ma lui mal non le vuol fare
sol con lei vuol tanto stare.

The vampire Bella’s face to face with
makes her shiver, just a bit.
But no intent has he to injure,
he only wants to stay with her.

The new chapter is due to be posted in two weeks.

Reviewers get a little gift.

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Romanward?

This picture of Romanward came to me as a gift from Camilla. It makes me think that De Immortalitate began to be posted two years ago (Summer 2011) and was my first multichapter story. I'm currently posting my fifth multichapter story, Snare, and I'm humbled by the terrific support it's getting! 

Thank you for everything!

Antonius & Bella

De Immortalitate COMPLETE "The life of the Roman patrician Antonius is put at stake by his father, Felix. When Felix brings to his only son a new slave, Bella, more reasons arise for Antonius' concerns. Felix's secret can change Antonius' and Bella's destiny." ExB AU/vampires

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