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Hello, beautiful readers! For this week's W3: Wea've Written Weekly, Lesley Scoble invites us to write a monologue. She encourages us to take a character, whether historical, fictional, or original, and step into his/her voice. The character must be seated on a bench while giving the monologue.

I decided to write the monologue from the point of view of one of my characters from my Chronicles of the Diasodz series. It's a young adult fantasy series that follows Sofia's journey as her world gets turned upside down when the Diasodz, beings with special abilities, come to take her to their world with hopes that she can save it from dying. It is filled with twists and turns, and not all is as it seems. Sofia isn't the only one whose life is uprooted. Rafe's world comes crashing down as well, and it's from his point of view that I write the monologue.

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Consequences

This is Sofia's favorite place.

I can't recall how many times

She sat on this very stone bench

Under her favorite willow tree

Praying to Goddess.

Why did I have to choose between

You and her?

And now...

Both you and Sofia are gone, and

I don't know if she is alive or dead

Or somewhere in between.

And you...

I had just found you,

Was just getting to know you,

Love you,

Why did you go and do that?

Why did you wait so long to do

The right thing?

If only you would have acted sooner,

Maybe you would both still be here

With me.

And I wouldn't have to live with the guilt that

My decision led us on this path,

Led to this desolation,

This blackhole of mourning,

This unfathomable grief.

If only I had the power to 

Rewind the hands of time,

And if I could,

Would you choose to protect us earlier?

Would you have found your courage sooner?

Or would fate still take us down

A similar path

And once again leave me utterly

Alone?

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If I've piqued your interest, and you'd like to read about Sofia and Rafe's journey, I've put the link for the first book in the series below. It's free! Happy reading!

The One Discovered (Chronicles of the Diasodz, Book 1)

How do you choose when both options have dire consequences? Sofia is a 17 year old who is quite content with her life. She has a caring boyfriend who also just happens to be her best friend since birth. She has a loving mother. She is successfully completing her last year of high school and enjoys her part-time job. She can’t imagine wanting more from her life…until Ar’ch (pronounced Ar-rick) enters her dreams, sparking a burning flame inside of her that she can’t seem to extinguish nor does she want to. 

Ar’ch is a Diasodz (Die-ah-sodz), a species created by the Goddess back when God created humans. Diasodz were made to heal and protect humans, but when the Diasodz turned their backs on helping humans and left Earth to live in their own world, the Goddess abandoned them. Since then, their powers and their very lives have been fading. A prophecy foretold that a young girl born on Earth would be the Diasodz’s savior. Ar’ch and his brother, Angel, travel to Earth to retrieve her and bring her back to their world before her death day in order to save their kind. 

Ar’ch knows the drill: find the target, capture her, and safely bring her home. But what happens when the target captures his dormant heart? Choices create action. Actions have consequences. When faced with the truth, what choice will Sofia make? Will she be able to accept the consequences that follow?