Ireth
Myth Weaver
I'm in the midst of a very important scene in my current untitled WIP, and the thing that's holding me up is the inability to get into a certain character's head. Try as I might, she refuses to let on what she's thinking or feeling.
Here's the situation in brief: The MC, Cadell, was kidnapped some four days prior to the current scene, held captive in the villain's lair and tortured by evil black-elves. A good black-elf named Signy found Cadell, freed him, and hid him from her kin for the majority of those four days while she tended his wounds. During that time, Cadell was unsuccessfully searched for, and ultimately said to have been killed. Now Cadell and Signy have escaped, and Cadell has taken Signy to meet with Queen Brigh, the ruler of his people. Queen Brigh views black-elves to be thoroughly evil, so the idea of a good, helpful one is entirely new to her (as it was for Cadell). Likewise, she too believed Cadell to be dead until now, and more than one person believes that he is an impostor. At the point I'm at in the scene, Brigh has literally just caught sight of Cadell and Signy standing together, and has yet to react other than looking back and forth between them.
I have no idea whether Brigh is relieved at Cadell being alive, suspicious of his real identity, angry at him for bringing a black-elf to her gate, or some combination of the three. In any case, she is not one to show emotion much at all, whether externally or internally. As a result, this scene is doubly hard to write, since Cadell, not she, is the POV character, and her outward reactions and dialogue are all the reader sees. Any suggestions on how to get through this?
Here's the situation in brief: The MC, Cadell, was kidnapped some four days prior to the current scene, held captive in the villain's lair and tortured by evil black-elves. A good black-elf named Signy found Cadell, freed him, and hid him from her kin for the majority of those four days while she tended his wounds. During that time, Cadell was unsuccessfully searched for, and ultimately said to have been killed. Now Cadell and Signy have escaped, and Cadell has taken Signy to meet with Queen Brigh, the ruler of his people. Queen Brigh views black-elves to be thoroughly evil, so the idea of a good, helpful one is entirely new to her (as it was for Cadell). Likewise, she too believed Cadell to be dead until now, and more than one person believes that he is an impostor. At the point I'm at in the scene, Brigh has literally just caught sight of Cadell and Signy standing together, and has yet to react other than looking back and forth between them.
I have no idea whether Brigh is relieved at Cadell being alive, suspicious of his real identity, angry at him for bringing a black-elf to her gate, or some combination of the three. In any case, she is not one to show emotion much at all, whether externally or internally. As a result, this scene is doubly hard to write, since Cadell, not she, is the POV character, and her outward reactions and dialogue are all the reader sees. Any suggestions on how to get through this?