Oblivion's Eye (The Final Few Days)

I finished the rough of the final few days for this second novel in the Reality's Dream trilogy, officially marking that I have more done on the second than I do on the first.

But these days are critical to the rest of the story, set up things for the third, and even beyond that if I continue the story into another arc of novels (once I start showing more of the "Rosewater" arc, everyone will better understand how these two series' are related).

They cover three main things:

The 'final' Hayley dialogue. Alan and Hayley have it out for the final time, and it doesn't go down pretty. I've known this is how it's had to be for since I mapped out everything that would happen in the novels, you can even see this in the series timeline I made out months and months ago. This hurts Alan because he obviously has wanted her since he first saw her, and yet again she rejects him over reasons he views as trivial. It sets up quite a few things in the next novel, but nothing compared to the next item on our list.

The final Bree moments. At the very end of Oblivion's Eye, Bree disappears from Alan's life forever. This is really depressing for me, far more so than any other part of the novel, and it has a horrible effect on Alan that isn't resolved for quite some time to come. This is really sad for me because Bree's character draws from three female friends that have had quite a bit of an effect on my life.

The epilogue. Here we have Alan losing himself in thoughts, wondering why life is nothing but traveling from one tragedy to the next. We end the novel with Alan standing before a church, begging a god he isn't sure exists for questions.

I don't know that I'll post the ending yet until its not so rough, because I want the emotion to be right, plus I'd rather everyone be able to see it in its rightful context. Part of the reason this is so emotional is because the characters are so prominent, and I think that over the course of the series readers will come to relate to these characters and like them in their own rights; that's why these three moments at the end of Oblivion's Eye are so important to me. Just the ending in its own sense, without getting to know the characters, kind of negates any emotion that could be felt.

Now, onward to writing those pieces of Longing....