Gee, does no one read my notes after the Karma pages? :3; Yes, that's Sean and Claris in the latest page. Yes, Claris is smiling. I know it's weird. But Sean looks like he's thinking horrible thoughts, so it's half right anyway.

Claris has also made two cameos in Clarity: once in the cafe at the bookstore (that's what you meant when you said bar, right, Kefanii?), in Chapter 7, and then again in Chapter 9 when Sikari is taking over the school. I can do this because, in case you haven't noticed yet, all of my characters live in the same town. Claris attends Kaitlyn and them's school (and vice versa), and Frames (the name of the bookstore--an obvious rip of Borders) is the most popular bookstore (it's also where Etienne works). Sinclair lives in Vinton as well, not that I've ever mentioned that. He lives in one of the four mansions--one belongs to Kiera's family, another to Roan's, and the other one is the Cerberus Estate which technically belongs to Charon (though it's been officially condemned and he doesn't intend to move in or let anyone official know he's alive and it belongs to him). Vinton is based very loosely on the town I live in, not in layout or anything but most of the places I mention do exist.

For example, the school is laid out like my own high school. Obviously the bookstore is like the Borders shop here. The shed Sean lives in exists (as does the shed that is now a gaudy yellow barn), though I've never been inside it because it is old and scary and there really are a lot of snakes in the grass back behind there. I also found a cemetery upon which to base Sean's workplace. ^_^;

Cafe Apocalypse (the bar Pathos works at) doesn't exist to my knowledge (though I think there was a nightclub called that in Memphis at one time; I think it's closed now though), nor do any of the mansions. Kaitlyn's and Charon's apartment buildings are also not based on any particular place.

I have a fair idea of how Vinton looks in my mind, though I've never drawn a map, I know basically where everything is in relation to everything else. Nearly everything I write is set there--if it's not set there, then it's set in a different world altogether (of which I have several, and several characters in my stories are from there, with Reve/Peri/Harmatia being obvious examples. Sean was also born on a different world than Earth, but there's not really a big deal made about it since it's not crucial to the plotline).

Yeah, I have a lot of free time. (well.. actually I don't, but I waste a lot of time thinking about all this)