Digging The Grave.

Step 5 - Crossing the threshold

Vogler says "the hero commits to the adventure and enters the special world of the story for the first time."

Okay so it occurs to me now that I really didn't set up the call to adventure in stage 2 beyond saying Emily sees a fairy. So I had a little think about it last night in bed and have fleshed out how she gets involved in the battle between the fairies and the gnomes.

So Emily goes for a walk and hears a faint cry coming from the woods at the end of the village. She goes to investigate and sees a small group of gnomes harassing a fairy. Now what I mean by harassing will have to be considered a little further. I read an article online about the increasingly dark themes being explored by YA novels, which leads me to wonder whether the gnome harassment could or should be sexual? Thing is I mostly want to try and keep this thing funny and entertaining and i'm not sure how much funny I can get from attempted rape. Meh, i'll figure that out later.

So having being saved by Emily from the gnomes attack the fairy starts to tell her a little bit about herself and the difficulties between her race and the gnomes. It's a matter of land and religion, specifically the two magical peoples have two differing religious beliefs that keep them at odds with each other (the specifics of which I have vaguely mapped out in my head.) The real problem lies though in the centre of the village. There is a gateway between this world and another that both the gnomes and the fairies feel they have a claim to as part of their seperate traditions. A new gnome chief has just been appointed and so what has always been a divide between the two worlds is becoming increasingly stirred up because of a new gnome rhetoric. The fairy asks Emily for her help.

So as mentioned earlier Emily goes through a bit of balking, it's only natural, but then after some well timed words from her odd aunt she decides to get involved in the fight for fairy religious freedom.