Morning Chit Chat

Good Morning!!

Okay, so I think the reply to your first e-mail may get long like the one I did last night. I don't know, it depends on how far off track I get. So I'm gong to answer the shorter answer ones and hopefully will keep enough time to go to flag. And for your own peace of mind, I stopped walking on eggshells some time ago. Actually probably not that long ago, I'd say Christmas maybe. I was just too scared of my own emotions and the depth I was going to feel them.

See Delta is a great artist! I love the thought her songs can provoke, and I like the way they provoke them. Last night on Earth is indeed the name of the song, good job!

My mass e-mails are something I am very awake that everyone gets. Different people in different parts of my life (work, guides, school, family) see the emails I send and I'm very conscious of what it is I write. Most of the time. I have moments where I slip. But in general, I think that my 'mask' comes out because I don't want people to know me too well. Especially work people. Fiona will e-mail me privately and ask how I am going. The big emails go to pretty much everyone I know. The people who genuinely care how things are going e-mail me back otherwise it's just a general catch up as to what has been going on. I try not to make it too personal. Indeed you probably have gotten used to me without the mask. You should feel privileged, that's a side most don't see!

No one else has ever read Day and Night, but then most of the other stuff I have written has only been seen by Carly and odd bits and pieces by Veronica. My very first long story was read by my English teacher and a few of my class mates of the time. Well I guess I was kind of reading it to them. Poems are what people most see, but even then its only a few. So back to Day and Night, only you've read it. Yes it's obvious that the name Rachel has come from me and part of the way I spilt the two of us was dropping the second a in Rachael. It helped a little! Rachel Manchester came to life mid 1999 when Veronica and I first became friends. Manchester in the beginning needed a side kick and well Veronica was it. I always meant to change names further down the track but never did because they stuck, you know they took on a personality of their own. While Veronica has indeed been killed off, it's only because Rachel needed to literally start fresh.

There is a case that I haven't written yet, but it takes place between something called The Spirit of Truth and Day and Night. Its the case that brings Rachel back to Australia. It brings her face to face with a ghost from her past which is something you haven't come across yet because its' not mentioned in Day and Night. The Rachel Manchester saga is long, she has history!! Its starts in Butterfly, then to Free Fall, then something called Pasquinade, which leads to The Spirit of Truth and finally to Day and Night. She has a big saga!

You were right about Rachel's morals and sleeping with Michael. She denies it in the beginning because she is repulsed by what she's done. Again that's something that comes out during the course of Day and Night. There are hints of a close friendship in The Spirit of Truth but never to the degree which will emerge in Day and Night.

Right, my dear, I have to leave it at that because I have to go upstairs!!! I made it to the half way point of your e-mail without getting this too long. How cool is that!! What I might do is at some point put together a little time line so you can figure out what goes on when in my world of fiction!

Argh, have to go, don't get carried away again!

Rachael :-)