Afterword
This book, spin-off number three, was written concurrently with book six of the main story and released within two months of it.
Since the story stayed completely aboveground in book six, this story was written primarily in the Dungeon. Every day, I live in fear of someone pointing out that I may or may not have lost track of which series is the main and which is the spin-off.
In the fantasy genre, I have the same affinity for elves as I do for dwarves. I’m naturally drawn to the elegant race of men and women with long, pointed ears. Out of the five races of demi-humans in my writing, I feel that elves are the most developed and explored race (as of right now at least). Since elves tend to stand out on their own in terms of personality, they’re very easy to use when setting up a story. I must admit that they’ve become my “security blanket” of sorts. When in doubt, an elf will sort it out! Or something like that.
The elves as a race in the series have been shaped by my own personal bias as well as by how I want them to be seen.
Immense pride in themselves and one another, maintaining cleanliness to a fault, letting only those they trust touch their skin, living extraordinarily long life spans, and possessing hidden magic potential…etc., etc. I feel that I’ve added my own details about elves not expressed in other fantasy stories. I also believe that because they desire to be more beautiful in mind and body than those around them, they also experience more pain and suffering than other races when they become “hurt.” In this story of a heroine, a flower blooming far out of reach, it was fitting to have her less-experienced counterpart be an elf. Perhaps it was inevitable.
Fujino Omori
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