#Name of Castle

Prompt: What is your favorite word? Write a scene around that word.

I was going to talk about my extensive planning this weekend and connect it to the word "therefore" since that is how we planned, x must happen, therefore y must happen first, and I'm not lying when I say therefore is a great word (it makes you sound intelligent and there are so many ways to stress it), but then I realized I could use a different word: harmony. A word invoking thoughts of peace, but also of music. Specifically all my happy memories as one of the Second Soprano Smoothie Sisters. As a bonus, I had actually already written this into my story this week. So what follows is a longer section of my writing this week because I am super proud of it.

But first a quick background. It takes place in the far future. They are on a quest to restore these temples across the star system. Spades is highly keyed into nature magic and is fiercely defending this place.

You will also notice a couple #'s in the text. I do this a lot for this I want to come back to since it is easily searchable. That being said, if you have any ideas for castle names leave them in the comments below!

Favourite writing from this week: 

   It was an unusual sight to be sure. Spinning columns of flame nearly seven feet high in a small range of warm colours surrounded the group. A deep blue flame was directly in front of them and seemed to be slightly taller than the others. Remarkably, the flames were not nearly as hot as they had assumed. Spades took one quick glance around them and decided she was not going to be intimidated.
   “What in the mustquaed do you think you are doing?” she demanded, marching right up to the blue one and stabbing her spoon in its direction.
   “Spades get away!” Nadir called frantically. “You are going to combust.”
   She paid him no mind. “You were charged with protecting this place. And look at it! No one takes care of it, there are holes in the roof, and now there are workers at this very moment setting explosives to decimate this temple. I had to activate the Doomsday protection. And where we you?”
   There was silence in the forest as Spades waited for an answer.
   “Spades,” Dr. Kear said hesitantly. “Those are just flames; I don’t think they can--”
   “We were watching.” It was a harmony of three voices that sounded in their minds. “We brought you here.” A major chord spread across three different octaves, it wasn’t hard to tell this was no mortal creature speaking. “We are but elementals, servants of the Great Mother. Our physical bodies died long ago. No mortal form has been strong enough to contain us.”
   “But you can move into any form?” Spades asked.
   “Yes. You would not survive though.”
   “I’m not thinking of myself.” She smiled and reached into her pocket, pulling out a small pouch. “These were given to me by the Goddess Kim. I believe they were meant for you.” She untied the string and flung the seeds out in front of her. As if time meant nothing, the seeds shot through early life stages before their eyes and transformed into strong birch trees.


   The elementals said nothing but one of the bright yellow flames zipped towards the closest tree and disappeared inside. The white bark faded to become the same bright yellow, but nothing else changed until it moved.
   The branches shivered and began waving about, testing their limits of motion. “It is stable.” A different chord, only in one octave, for this new speaker. “It will last.”
   The other flames now also merged into trees, creating a colourful and dynamic forest like none of them had seen before. Branches swayed and twisted, the trunks uprooted themselves and seemed to glide through the ground as if it were a liquid. The forest of flames began moving back towards the temple.
   “We thank you for the gift, Lady Spades of #name of castle.” The blue flame infused tree bent low and extended a thin branch towards her. It had a single vibrant cerulean leaf. “Take this leaf and use it to call my kin if you ever have need.”
   Spades plucked the leaf and carefully slipped it between two pages of a book in her bag. #does she even have a bag? I know Hannah and Ari do#
   The Seekers and Dr. Kear watched the leader move off to join his kin in chasing off the scientists and undoing the damage they had wrought.
   A round of yawns reminded them all that they had hardly slept since the morning and there was no reason for them to remain out here. Dr. Kear set off in the direction of her old home, hoping to see her parents, and the others begged Hannah to portal them back to the hotel as soon as they were alone. She rolled her eyes but was too tired to deny that a shortcut seemed best. She spread the paper on the forest floor, they all linked hands, and on the count of three they jumped.