Rise of the Dark Alpha

483  Author Q & A – Part 2

CHARACTERS CONTINUED… n0𝓋ℯ𝗅𝐮𝐬𝗯.𝒸0𝕞

What happened to the females who didn’t make it through the gateway with Sasha?

There were five or six of them, and they were all taken to places of safety. (Not the same safe place as the rest, but each of them was distracted from their purpose by a true yearning for a different kind of life, and so the gateway took each of them to a place that would fulfill their personal desires.) The only reason Patty ended up in a bad place was because Nick had coached her to manipulate her. He didn’t try to send her to the place she went, he was just trying to put her off-track.

Where did Patty go after she told Sasha about her baby?

Patty was held by the Chimera until the order came down that they were all leaving. A couple guards took her to the Gateway and released her into it (before the Chimera went through.) They didn’t tell her where to go, they just made sure she left.

Patty ended up back in the human world, but she avoided her employers completely, moved states with the help of her family, and became an activist against Big Pharma.

Are the team in Thana the same scientists as the ones in Taming the Queen of Beasts?

Sort of. In the “real” time-space continuum there are several decades between the end of Queen and the end of Alpha. So the Board and Team that deals with Zev are the next generation after those that tried to take Anima. However, they are part of the same movement or goal. When Sasha told the Gateway she wanted to go to the place that humans couldn’t infiltrate, it didn’t just take her to a place that was safe physically, it took her back in time to a place when the humans didn’t know Zev existed as well, to the safest place and time in Anima (she just didn’t know that.)

Why did you kill Yhet? Yhet was another character that was really supposed to be in the story more for a much shorter time, not to play as big of a function as he did. But I enjoyed him so much, and he related to Sasha so well, it was natural to bring him into a much more central role. And then you all enjoyed him so much, it would have been stupid to get rid of him.

He was originally supposed to die early—Sasha was supposed to become attached to him quickly, then see him die as a result of losing his mate, and that was going to be the way the reader came to understand what was really at stake when one of a Chimeran Mating Pair were killed (cue extra tension for Sasha and Zev as they face separation and potential death.) But in the end, it became clear that I could show those impacts in other ways, and Yhet was too good of a character not to use more fully.

With that said, waaaaaaaay back at the beginning when he was introduced, and Thana was introduced, I made it really clear that the Chimera died within a few years (sometimes a much shorter time) when their mates died. The groundwork for Yhet’s impending death was always there.

So… I’m sorry that his loss was so heartbreaking, but I’ll be honest, I loved seeing him display his heart and his fierceness by serving the purpose that he did. Be glad you didn’t have to watch it in the flesh. I did. And it made me cry. In the end, I think Yhet was very best example to show the truth about how horrific it was that the Chimera were treated so ruthlessly.

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