Synopsis: Theme Prompts

In the world, there live Eight Great Races. The Griffins, who hold power over the truth; the Phoenix, who hold power over healing; the Dragons, who hold power over fire; the Basilisks, who hold power over earth; the Kraken, who hold power over water; the Pegasus, who hold power over air; the Unicorns, who hold power over light. And the Humans. For centuries, the Seven Races have kept themselves hidden from the Humans, believing it was better for everyone that way.

But the world has started to fall apart.

Korli was always a strange girl, even to her fellow Griffins. Somehow, she knew things that could not possibly have been known. She could see the past and predict the future. And everything she said came true, whether she wanted it to or not.

Kina was an orphan all her life. Peg was the youngest of five in a family that only saw him as another mouth to feed. They met when they were seven years old and decided then and there that they would be twins. After all, wind and water always went together. Now they’ve grown up, and weird things have begun to happen around the city. Flash floods, sudden gales and unending rain. And they have a horrible suspicion that they’re the ones to blame.

If anyone had bothered to ask Malc what race he was growing up, he would give them a confused look and replied, human, of course. It wasn’t until he turned thirteen and his parents decided to take him to visit the city that he learned differently. He was a Basilisk, whatever that was, and he had to be sent to the Hidden City to learn how to control his new-found powers. But the task is hardly as easy as it sounds.

Austin is a Phoenix with the power to kill with one touch. The problem being that he can’t seem to turn the power off. Locked in a little white room all his life, he’d never given much thought to the outside world. Until a Dragon who couldn’t die came to live in the little white room next to his.

When Remeck was twelve years old, he died. A week later, as his family was burning his body according to Dragon tradition, he woke up again. For the past three years since then, he’s been stuck inside a science lab, the subject of innumerable experiments. But he’s finally found his chance to escape, and he’s taking Austin with him.

All Ayave ever wanted was a normal life. She’d had a normal life, before some newbie Basilisk marched into her town, dragging a strange Phoenix behind him. Now she’s being dragged along on their insane adventure as the only voice of reason in the group.

When Sen’ni Magillicuti was fifteen, she ran away from home to join the Guard. When she was seventeen, she met her first Basilisk and had a run in with the Griffins. Now, three years later, she is running away again, this time to protect a group of outcast who have nowhere else to go.

Yeah… okay, so I realize that that doesn’t really tell you much about the actual plot of the story, but there’s a very good reason for that. Namely, that the story doesn’t really have a plot. Just a good set of characters and a world for them to play in.
What I’m really doing is a theme set. A theme set is a group of 50 semi-interconnecting words. For example, the first ten of the set I’m using are: 1. Tea 2. Forgiveness 3. Hurt 4. Time 5. Silence 6. Flower 7. Touch 8. Sex 9.Envy 10. After
The point is to write one piece (a sentence, a scene, a drabble, a chapter, etc.) inspired by each of the words. The pieces can be all about the same things/people, or they can be entirely unrelated. I’m going to do them using the above described characters, writing in roughly chronological order of what I think might happen in the story. I’m hoping a plot might show up along the way, but my real goal is just to finish the set.