A Lady's Prerogative cancelled...

Thanks to the abuse and efforts of very nasty cult in Toronto and elsewhere in the world, The Butterfly Dragon will no longer be continued.

Mostly this is based upon the actions of an abusive cult in the Toronto area and the fact that this cult believes that my book is not original. I believe that the motives are more based upon the activities of a racist cult that is prevailing in many parts of the world against Oriental culture.

The book that I wrote is original and I believe that a criminal gang conducted illegal surveillance or used a keylogger to steal my book as I wrote it. I reported this concern to the authorities several times but was never assisted on the matter. Not to mention that a criminal gang seems to be operating in strength in the area that I live, and seem to be in control of this form of spying and using it for such theft.

The same fate will affect A Lady's Prerogative and for the same reasons.

Most of my efforts will be focused on a legal battle against the group responsible and getting an official investigation in place into this activity in Toronto and elsewhere.

Much of it was racist as well targeting the race of my character Heylyn Yates because I created her as a Mandarin Chinese character. Instead the gang responsible seemed to want the character to be Italian, and for that culture also to be my real life love interest and not my current Mandarin Chinese love interest. So this was deliberate racist sabotage by an organized criminal gang whose activities I will never keep quiet about.

Perhaps when law enforcement takes reports seriously in such matters, low income earners like myself won't be compromised by criminal operations with the ability to spy illegally upon private citizens for the purposes of theft of creative property.

I will post the exact same message on Tales Of The Sanctum which will signal a cessation to any further work on either property.

Keep in mind as well that while this activity was going on, I was also being stalked and abused by neighbors, members of my community and other people in the city of Toronto in a sort of love/hate competition. It has been a very unnerving experience and right now if I was offered the chance to leave my country and go to Korea, Japan or China and work shoveling ditches for a living, I'd take it in a heartbeat and never return.

That's how betrayed I feel.

I will continue to write though I will never work on The Butterfly Dragon or A Lady's Prerogative characters or stories again as a result of this ordeal.

Both the series' books are my creative properties and my creation, though a group of very nasty people tried to steal them. So I did not take them down because I had done any wrong in any way at all. I took them down because I'd been done wrong by an abusive group of people. I am not on the blue team and never will be.

With regret,

Brian Joseph Johns

Indefinitely postponed...

This is just a notice that A Lady's Prerogative II: Wounded Aerth will be indefinitely postponed thanks to a lot of setbacks related to social abuse in my community and place of residence by a blood centric racist cult that are essentially against me being in a relationship with someone Mandarin Chinese.

That's not your problem and I apologize to my readers for the setback and delay. Until this problem is dealt with there will be no continuation on this book or The Butterfly Dragon series.


Just so you know that I'm pulling my weight with regard to Women's rights and their link with The Butterfly Dragon and A Lady's Prerogative, here's a copy two letters I received from the Office Of The Prime Minister of Canada with regard to the issues of rights that I had written to them numerous times about.

So here is the reply from the Office Of The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau

Dear Mr. Johns:

On behalf of the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, I would like to acknowledge receipt of your correspondence regarding the problem of violence against women.

As your comments will be of interest to the Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, and the Honourable Patricia A. Hajdu, Minister of Status of Women, I have taken the liberty of

forwarding your e-mail to the their attention. I am certain that the Ministers will wish to give your concerns every consideration.

Thank you for writing to the Prime Minister.

A. Opalick
Executive Correspondence Officer
for the Prime Minister's Office
Agent de correspondance
de la haute direction
pour le Cabinet du Premier ministre

>>> From : Brian Johns fav.inbox@gmail.com Received : 07 Mar
2016 10:58:44 PM >>>

>>> Subject : A Matter Of Importance >>>>

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau,

I am sending you a letter which I sent to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper on the 28th of November in 2012. The letter that I sent follows:

I am a citizen whose concern for the fair treatment of Aboriginal women is as important as the treatment of all women.

We as a nation do not tolerate violence against and the exploitation of women, yet why is this not the case for Aboriginal women within Canada. With cases like that of Robert Pickton and numerous disappearances and deaths of Aboriginal women within cities around the country, why is this allowed to continue? There is no justifiable reason for us to ignore the plight of any women within our nation yet it is allowed to go on without someone saying 'this isn't right'. We cannot allow ourselves to be lulled into thinking that if we see it happening around us that it must be ok.

We as the people of Canada serve as your eyes and ears in terms of your navigation through the often perilous challenges for our country. If we are your senses then why ignore requests from us, and agencies like Amnesty International with regard to this issue. Please show the mothers and daughters of the members of our Aboriginal community that we as a nation of many different and valued people care for their well being and welcome them as well as the Aboriginal peoples as likely as they welcome us, for despite our differences, we all are really one.

To allow them harm is to harm ourselves.

I received a direct and formal reply from the office of the Prime Minister with regard to the above request and was able to see some action and results in this regard especially with investigations that sought to reduce victimization of Women who'd been lured into prostitution often by those who'd employ the use of crack cocaine or another addictive drug as the motivating factor in retaining those Women for such purposes. They would literally repeat their service hiring themselves out for small amounts for the concern of making sure they could afford their drug habit. Many of the dealers responsible for this activity were and are aware of this. These are people who really sought to and did do these things to Women. It is one thing for Women to consensually play with their lover or partner in whatever way they as a couple choose, so long as there is consent. Its quite another for a Woman to be lured into selling themselves in order to pay for a drug habit that they've often been led to by the very person who is selling them for sexual purposes. When Women have been involved in such activities and with someone who wants that to remain quiet that creates motive for the activities of someone who might seek to snuff their lives out to keep them quiet. These are important considerations for this issue and should be tabled as there have recently been cases that involve such activities as I've described here.

I would like to expand upon that request and ask of you that such a mandate be pursued as did the prior occupant of your office to include all Women whom fall victim to such acts and tragedy as I am certain you are taking steps to accomplish. There needs to be a tracking mechanism that can help investigators follow such cases of wrong doing with regard to such acts in such a way that Women are not exploited in such a way and to prevent Women (including Transgender Women who've identified themselves and their gender as Women) from meeting such ends seeing as the occurrence of such crimes are more likely to find Women victims much more often than Men. Our investigative capacities and law encorcement capabilities should reflect that difference and ensure that such information or intel related to such activities immediately is taken into consideration or evaluation as per standard operations by law enforcement.

As in my Canadian books A Lady's Prerogative and The Butterfly Dragon I: Heroes Of Our Own both of which have characters of Canadian origins and of a wide variety of origins and cultures, I would like to see a society where Women and Men are equals and work together as a team, regardless of sexual orientation or culture and for all Women to feel safe to this end.

Canada is a world leader in that aspect having been amongst the first fivecountries in the world that ratified the Women's vote in 1918 (following the suit of Manitoba's Provincial Women's vote) and as the fifth country in the world to have the Women's vote. That's only 25 years behind the first country to who brought about the first Women's vote in 1893 (the vote occurred in 1894). Let's hope that we are a World leader in Women's rights in the future as we are and have been in the past.

Sincerely,

Brian Joseph Johns

In honour of International Women's Day
A few years prior I received this reply from the Office Of The Right Honourable Stephen Harper with regard to the same issue
Dear Mr. Johns:

I would like to acknowledge receipt of your e-mail addressed to the Prime Minister regarding the prevention of violence against Indigenous women.

You may be assured that your comments have been given careful consideration. As they will also be of interest to the Honourable Robert Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, and the Honourable John Duncan, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, I have taken the liberty of forwarding copies of your message to them. I am certain that the Ministers will give your views every consideration.

Thank you for taking the time to share your views with the Prime Minister on this important issue.

P. Monteith
Executive Correspondence Officer
for the Prime Minister's Office
Agent de correspondance
de la haute direction
pour le Cabinet du Premier ministre

>>> From : Brian Johns fav.inbox@gmail.com Received : 28 Nov 2012 10:18:27 PM >>>
>>> Subject : A moment of your time for the issue of violence against women. >>>>

Dear Prime Minister Harper,


I am a citizen whose concern for the fair treatment of Aboriginal women is as important as the treatment of all women.

We as a nation do not tolerate violence against and the exploitation of women, yet why is this not the case for Aboriginal women within Canada. With cases like that of Robert Pickton and numerous disappearances and deaths of Aboriginal women within cities around the country, why is this allowed to continue? There is no justifiable reason for us to ignore the plight of any women within our nation yet it is allowed to go on without someone saying 'this isn't right'. We cannot allow ourselves to be lulled into thinking that if we see it happening around us that it must be ok.

We as the people of Canada serve as your eyes and ears in terms of your navigation through the often perilous challenges for our country. If we are your senses then why ignore requests from us, and agencies like Amnesty International with regard to this issue. Please show the mothers and daughters of the members of our Aboriginal community that we as a nation of many different and valued people care for their well being and welcome them as well as the Aboriginal peoples as likely as they welcome us, for despite our differences, we all are really one.

To allow them harm is to harm ourselves.

Truly,

Brian Joseph Johns
So in both cases I received a prompt reply with regard to the issue and thankfully recently the RCMP appointed an investigative task force to look into the deaths of Aboriginal Women. This was largely the result of many concerned citizens who'd expressed concern in regard to this issue and those in office who acted upon it.

So my books are more than just words as are most books. Writing can be the diagnosis of social symptoms of some much bigger problem, or it can be a social mirror that is much needed in society. A point from where to step back and take a deeper look into experiences that allow us to explore without risk to our health the road ahead through prose and allegory. I say these words with truth and without any sort of reversed meaning as is common nowadays by some. I'm not on the hate means love team and never will be. I've always lived by the words say what you mean and mean what you say.

So I'll continue with my efforts with my books at some point in the future after the problem of this abusive cult has been dealt with and exposed.

Brian Joseph Johns
http://thebutterflydragon.blogspot.ca
http://talesofthesanctum.blogspot.ca

A New Promo Image Of The Lost And The Found...

Here's a new image of the cast from The Lost And The Found with the addition of two new characters. Specifically Athandra Rithyani (of The Order Of Ghanesh) and Valerie Aspen (Valkyra). The events of this story will bridge the sequels for A Lady's Prerogative and The Butterfly Dragon I: Heroes Of Our Own. Also not Mila's and Nelony's new attire.

Enjoy!

Brian Joseph Johns

The cast from left to right are:

Alicia Westin (aka Night Style), Nelony Ardbloem (of the Order Of The Aerth Mother), Jasmer McCavanaugh (of The Order Of The New), Yirfir Lacharme (of The Order Of The New), Valerie Aspen (aka Valkyra), Athandra Rithyani (of The Order of Ghanesh), Barris Windsor (of Shepperton off the Thames, Great Britain), Mila Rendebelle (of The Order Of Aetherial Artistry), Heylyn Yates (aka Ai Yuanlin Ying aka The Butterfly Dragon), Mishima Sato (most honorable Sensei and  Bujutsu), Shaela Sheowellyn (of The Order Of The Night Wytch) and Monique Defleur (aka The <Strawberry> Eclipse now just The Eclipse). The image of the lady in the background caressing the world in her arms is known as the Aerth Mother. It is said that the milky way in the sky is the strands of her hair enveloping the Aerth protectively while she holds it in her arms.

There are many more characters and designs to come...

Presenting Athandra Rithyani...

Here is the close to final version of Athandra Rithyani, Matron of the Order of Ganesh. She has appeared in The Lost And The Found and she's also in the upcoming book A Lady's Prerogative II: Wounded Aerth, she and her order play a key role in locating Nelony and protecting the Sanctum. The Sanctum of course is the secret headquarters of their magical order, located in a time independent other worldly plane of existence and who are the protectors of the Aerth. The Sanctum is made up of representatives from every culture in our world who are naturally talented and trained in the arcane arts. It is like a magical United Nations tasked with our protection from otherworldly forces. It draws its root from the like of Marvel's Doctor Strange (though not copied or conceived from even nearly) and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, though as mentioned the tone and setting are much different. A Lady's Prerogative borders on the line between adolescent and adult graphic fiction. I also drew inspiration from Anne Rice, a great writer and innovator when it comes to mystical and fantastic fiction.

Athandra's head piece is based upon real designs and represents Ganesh, whom appears in the form of a jewel encrusted elephant and is one of the pantheon of Hindu Gods. It was created in Newtek's Lightwave 3D and is only about a quarter of the way completed.

Her dress designed by Wendy Pusey as part of her works on her Daz 3D based content website. I actually spent much time looking for a design even walking through Toronto's own little India taking pictures at the various dress stores looking for that right design and to get some ideas. I'd started designing the character ages ago and between programming and another work gig, I got off track.

Today earlier this morning I received my first comment ever from this blog, from a fellow from India who is a real curative magician. So I thought to myself that if I'm reaching so many people and in other parts of the world, I really should finish this character. Besides, I'm looking forward to adding her into the upcoming photo architecture. Between working on this and The Butterfly Dragon, it's very time consuming while keeping up on other life aspirations not to mention dealing with some troublesome souls at times. I'd received a lot of (hidden) positive feedback from A Full Glass, A Piano And The Disappearance Of Time and had been working a lot with The Butterfly Dragon in the last few weeks. I'll actually have another new short story for The Butterfly Dragon within the next week which finds the quartet of Women as children who together must solve a mystery. It will still be another two weeks before I write a new chapter for The Lost And The Found if only to keep some abusive souls at bay. 

Also I'd like to say congratulations to all of the athletes competing in the Olympic Games in Rio. I was able to watch some of the events today including the Women's and Men's lightweight Taekwondo tournaments and the Women's Soccer (in which Canada took a Bronze medal!). It's so inspiring to see good sportsmanship between the athletes during such intense competition. Remember that these people have been working their whole lives and practicing day and night for the last four years for what hinges on a few moments at the pinnacle of their performance. It is very inspiring to see and as my own Aikido Sensei and Kyoshi Morgan, Ai Yuanlin Ying's instructor from The Butterfly Dragon would say: Learning how to get up also requires us to know how to fall...

Until then I'll have a few more character designs to post, Athandra here being the first.

Brian Joseph Johns

A preview of Athandra...

My apologies to the little India of Toronto. On my way to work in the mornings (on the odd times that I walk to work) I usually pass through little India in the East end of this magnificent city I call home. 

Yesterday I took a different route even though I was actively working on Athandra! I actually used the little India shops and people in the community as a reference for the character Athandra, who is a sort of Priestess of Ganesh. She leads the biggest presence of India in the Sanctum in A Lady's Prerogative and plays a pivotal role in A Lady's Prerogative II: Wounded Aerth. So as a thank you to the people of little India in Toronto, here are some early previews of Athandra and her headdress (which I studied from actual renditions of Ganesh).

Thank you and most of all I hope to honor people the culture of India living here and abroad,

Brian Joseph Johns

Afterwards Lady Naemi Soon and Jeong Soon here I come!

PS: Eugene F. has nothing to do with A Lady`s Prerogative, The Butterfly Dragon or this blog.

The Lost And The Found - Family picture...

From left to right: Alicia Westin (Night Style), Nelony Ardbloem, Jasmer McCavanaugh, Yirfir Lacharme, Barris Windsor, Mila Rendebelle, Heylyn Yates (Ai Yuanlin Ying aka The Butterfly Dragon), Mishima Sato, Shaela Sheowellyn and Monique Defleur.  Click for a larger image.

I'll be designing Athandra, Xenshi and Xushu next followed by Thara, Jexelen and Lannay. Athandra, Xenshi and Xushu will show up in the next family picture.

Thanks to a lot of abuse from a nasty and abusive neighborhood cult in Regent Park, I am not going to publish any new chapters for The Lost And The Found for a while. I don't want to punish my readers and many of them know the situation already. A gang of crooks in my community conduct illegal surveillance on my computer for the purposes of theft of what I create with many of the same crooks stalking me in the community. I don't use my computer for any illegal purposes at all, so there's no justification for doing so.

So to hold my supportive readers over until I post new chapters, here's a pic with a few new never before seen characters and with an updated Mila, Shaela and Barris.

Thanks to my readers,

Brian Joseph Johns

The Lost And The Found Part 7: Butterfly Eclipse Ally

Mishima Sato

Sato got to his feet thanking Feylashar solemnly bowing low for her.

"It's good to see you back again friend." Barris said, with a bit of emotional intensity.

Enough so that it may have caught some off guard.

"Oh stop playing with me. I'm a bit sore from that encounter." Sato said changing from the smile he'd shared with Feylashar to a gruff face he reserved for Barris.

"I am sorry my friend that I could not rend and end to what that vile soul had to us sent. It is good to see that peace has been found between you, the Eclipse and the Butterfly of course." the large Dragon Weltherwithsp said while still in their presence, its serpentine body held in place by two enormous butterfly wings.

"Sato, you could have slaughtered that man. Lorr. Even with his magic you could have ended it all right here." Barris said almost in disbelief that Sato had been felled so easily by the Power Lord.

"My friend, I would thank you for your vote of confidence but I cannot for it is a display of ego on your part and as such it imposes a weight upon me that is not right to entertain." Sato responded to Barris.

"But I've seen you in action. In that Estate in L'Arbour D'Noir. You acted through me and I felt limitless ability through your guidance." Barris said almost disappointed to have seen Sato felled so easily by the Power Lord.

"I agree. I mean Heyl... er... my Butterfly friend here took on an army of high powered creeps at once by herself to rescue me and our friends. Seeing her fall to the Power guy... uhhh... Power Lord there was a bit of a surprise." Monique still in her Eclipse costume said backing up Barris' point.

"I could explain but I would it if you would, Sato?" Heylyn aka the Butterfly Dragon conferred with Sato as to whether he could express their reasons for falling in battle.

"Then I will do so, Butterfly. The one you saw there, Lorr who is also known as the Power Lord is a very ancient force. He has been around since before the Shogunates. Before even the Dynasties. Before the Castes of India and before the stones of the first pyramids. Before even the Gardens of Babylon or the epic flood described by Gilgamesh. Before our earliest histories this... human man transcended the limits of mortality. He betrayed his wife and his children which he kept against her wishes. He has lived long and therefore he is an elder. Far older even than myself." Sato explained to Barris and those gathering in the assembly hall.

"What does that have to do with anything if he is evil and hurting people?" Barris asked affronting Sato's explanation before it was expressed.

"Yeah! If he's the big man behind all of this evil then why don't you just cut him down?" Monique asked looking first to Heylyn and then back to Sato.

Sato looked over to Jasmer and Yirfir who'd joined their conversation in listening. Jasmer looked back to Sato nodding and in essence giving his OK that Sato explain the situation.

"If we were to smite the Power Lord with all of our force and power, he would only become a martyr and it would not be long before the one who did the smiting became the new force to be reckoned with." Sato explained.

"But he's clearly evil! You'd be doing the world a favor!" Barris said to Sato.

"I agree! If this guy is half as bad as you say he is, then he deserves it!" Monique added to Barris' testimony.

"In some cultures around the world, age is revered." Heylyn said to Barris, Monique and all of those listening.

Sato nodded.

"But you're old and wise... er.... sorry 'bout the old part. You're a seasoned veteran." Barris said happy with his choice of words.

Barris and Mila

Mila who'd been dealing with Athandra, Thara and Jexelen about getting back to the ship joined Barris by his side.

Heylyn looked to Sato and he once again nodded and continued.

"If I or the Butterfly were to just destroy him by force, we would betray everything that we stand for and vilify ourselves in the process. Despite the fact that he looks much younger than I do, he is still in the neighborhood of ten thousand years old. He is an elder far in advance of my own age. For me to cut him down would appear to some as if a teenager had cut down an elderly man. Likewise with the Butterfly. It would fuel the fires of revenge and most certainly it would pit us as the enemy. The world congress would cut its ties with the Sanctum and we would become exiles. In such a case it would be nearly impossible for us to do our job and worse, someone would take Lorr's place. His twin offspring. They would be followed blindly by the Norbids and any whom they'd lured into their circle." Sato said looking to each Monique and Barris.

"It wouldn't stop there either. The twins are very powerful. Perhaps the most potent practitioners of the weave there are. Should they ever gain this leadership over the Norbids without the bridled restraint practiced even by someone as crass as Lorr, it would mean chaos and eradication for the world and subservience under their rule." Jasmer explained going by his memories of the fall of the first Sanctum.

"The human trafficking ring we are taking down would seem like a day care by comparison. The entirety of the world would be enslaved to the rule of the twins and the Norbids. Women. Children. Men. All of us. And worst of all once again would be the rule of might means right rather than might for right." Yirfir summed up Jasmer's contempt of the Power Lords.

"Nice touch, quoting T.H. White too. Cheers sweetheart." Barris said winking to Yirfir.

Yirfir smirked somewhat pleasantly at Barris.

"Perhaps it is a sign of unity amongst us that in that moment that none of us did in fact take that Power Lord down. It was fate. Destiny?" Heylyn contemplated aloud.

"It could safely be said that we do indeed fight on the same side and for the same mores. Perhaps that is how we should conduct ourselves in the future rather than fall prey to machinations of Lorr, his twins and the Norbids?" Thara her dark and boding shadow presence illuminating their path.

"I agree. Jeong, Jexelen, we should make this official." Lady Soon addressed her husband.

"Then so shall it be done. Let it be known that from this day forth that we shall work together as allies. Xenshi and Xushu however I give you the responsibility of staying in touch with Weltherwithsp and the Butterfly. Of keeping us in sync as it were." Jeong Soon addressed Xenshi and Xushu.

"We must get you back there soon. Time passes differently here in the midspace where the Sanctum is located in temporality. Time does not pass here and you will return to the ship at the very moment you left for the Sanctum. However, if you are gone too long even the precariously weak senses of the uninitiated will tune into the fact that something about you has changed. That you've experienced more time than they have, though it will come from them in other ways. Irritation with you. Suspicion. Perhaps even the urgency to interrogate you. You should return very soon." Athandra urged them.

"I agree. Not to mention that we need you to be alert for they are about to make communication with the leadership of their criminal organization." Jexelen informed them.

"We are all healed thanks to the magics of Feylashar. She is much strained and understaffed as Haether Dovensoul is currently away on assignment with Sir Manfred and Kenshin. We should take advantage of our good health now and return to the ship. No doubt we will be spending our health soon in the name of good." Xenshi responded looking to Feylashar.

Xenshi and Xushu floated over to Feylashar.Xenshi's hand gracefully found the end of a strand of Feylashar's hair. She held her fingers there momentarily. Her aura flowed through her fingers attaching itself to the end of the strand of hair glowing brilliantly.

"A secret gift for you." Xenshi said to her with compassion.

"She doesn't deserve it! She's really poisoning all of you with her healing! Aha! Haahaha!" Xushu said madly floating inverted above Xenshi's head.

Feylashar's heart jumped and she took Xushu's words in stride instead focusing on Xenshi's.

"Thank you." she responded.

"Uhhh, I don't mean to be imposing but we really should get going don't you think?" Nelony looked at the group as if to press the matter.

"I agree though we'll have our showdown some other time, Eclipse girl." Shaela said still a bit hurt that she'd been felled by Monique.

"Anytime, anywhere." Monique said confidently.

"We're better positioned in the container that we're in to conduct the kind of scrying we need to get at their communications." Mila said referring to her illusory painting in the container which allowed them to sleep in luxury while maintaining their cover.

"Nelony and I will keep an eye on the bridge of the ship. When they make their communications we'll let you know." Yirfir said to them.

"I've got someone watching for any communications as well. I'll be making contact with her as soon as we get back to the ship. Our plan was to bust out of the containers when they made their rendezvous point and take the guards out one at a time by stealth, keeping the captives in the containers while we did. Once we'd taken out their guard detail, we'd secure the cargo hold where the captives would remain while we swept the ship." Heylyn explained the plan her and Monique had worked out.

"That's basically our plan as well, however we've got information that they have backup. I don't know who or how and that the backup is enough for even a force like ours to be worried about." Yirfir stepped forward explaining the conundrum.

"Hurry up and wait was our plan. Wait and see what happened at their communications point and adapt as necessary while protecting all of the captives. First priority." Jasmer added.

"While you're protecting the captives my shadow cat is going to make dessert out of the traffickers." Shaela said sharply.

"Disabling them is alright but killing them and certainly eating them is not. We need them alive to stand trial for their crimes before a court of law." Jeong Soon reminded Shaela.

"Then so shall it be done. Let's get moving. We've got to procure freedom for some captives and take away the freedom from some traffickers." Jasmer urged the group.

Athandra and Thara began the portal summoning spell and before long a series of holes appeared in the fabric of space within the assembly hall.

"Be successful and be safe. You take the Sanctum with you." Lady soon said the team filed into the portals leading back to the ship from whence they came.

They each stepped in one at a time as the bubbling portal sucked them in whisking them across time and space.

"Is this going to hurt?" Monique asked.

"No. Not at all. Actually it feels great. I mean that. Really." Shaela said to Monique keeping her lie well concealed.

Monique stepped into the portal oblivious to the pain she was about to experience.

"You were lying to her, weren't you?" Heylyn asked Shaela.

"Absolutely. Sorry honey but those are the breaks." Shaela said, still a bit sore at Monique for messing up her summoning spell.

"I guess I should be greatful I haven't eaten..." Heylyn said as she stepped into the portal.

Barris watched as Shaela got close to the portal and as she did, he pointed urgently.

"Egad! What's that!" gesturing to a point across from the portal.

Shaela bought his ruse and looked just long enough for Barris to push her into the portal screaming.

Barris was the last to step into the portal. As he did, he braced himself for the experience which was reminiscent of being turned inside out several times while speeding both inwards and outwards from your body. As he stepped out of the portal despite his throbbing head he was surprised to see Mila, Shaela and the rest of the captives with their hands up.

"Alright, alright. It was me. It was all my plan... I ratted you all out..." Barris said putting his hands up in the air as he felt the barrel of the assault rifle in his back.

The man with the monocle had returned and was walking around the container eyeing everyone like the cat who swallowed the canary.

"It seems we have a few... secrets going on in here shall we say? The kind of secrets that might make our little operation a bit more... efficient? I'd say its time that we had a chat, wouldn't you?" he addressed them looking piercingly to Barris.

"About what? Oh... You mean these... Oh they're just... things. Floaty glowy things... Haven't you ever had a lava lamp? Hippy beads maybe?" Barris said trying to cover up the portals which slowly faded.

"SILENCE! I think you know more than you're letting on! Tell me or they..." the monocled man said losing his temper.

"Alright, alright. It was all my plan and doing. I'll tell you everything. Just please... not in my face. Or tush." Barris said attempting to protect Mila and Shaela.

"You know what? I believe you! Let's go have a talk..." the monocled man said as the butt of the assault rifle rendered Barris unconscious.

To be continued... and far from the end...

Brian Joseph Johns
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Butterfly, Butterfly

To spread your wings

To see you fly

In the night, In the sky

Butterfly, Butterfly