Fire brought you here.
Fire brought you here.
Fire brought you…
here.
The ice in her lungs melted. The fog creeped in as he sucked away her oxygen.
“I have separated you from your friends. And now I must…join you together.”
The fire comes for us all, Lilith.
“I can offer you eternal life. Eternal youth.”
What it was that made him willing to kill others in order to live.
“But first…first, Lilith, you must die.”
“Oh, do not look so frightened.”
“You will always be as…”
“You will always be as you are now.”
“I would not ask you to suffer the fire.”
“There is a much easier way.”
“You cannot leave. They are waiting for you. With their flashing lights and their accusations and their handcuffs.”
“The truth, Lilith…the truth is that we all burn.”
In the Valley of the Sun 
DANG Seth is so…intimidating.
I wonder how he wants her to die
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Bella and Shannon did not DIAF. 😉
I love Seth. 🙂
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When I saw your “almost done with update” tweet I kept refreshing the page every few minutes til I finally saw “Its done” haha
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Awwww. 🙂 I’m all blushy now.
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ACK! Lilith looks so calm while Seth is so…*shudder* mysterious.
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Yeah, she’s not really capable of strong responses at this point in time. We will see about that in the future, though.
I like Seth a lot myself. 🙂
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Seth… is creepy.
But there’s that touch I’ve been waiting for! *is a shameless Seth/Lillith shipper*
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Oh, I am very much a Lilith/Seth shipper myself. 🙂 So I had fun taking those pics.
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Oh. My. God. Yesterday I had a massive streak of reading throughout all your chapters and it was fantastic! More, por favor. This is astounding…bleh…I loved Jason. How will this turn out?
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Awww, thank you! And if you read all of them at once you probably saw some stuff that other people might have missed. 🙂
Jason was pretty cool, yeah.
As for how it’ll turn out – we are winding down to the end now. Not sure how many updates are left – this one didn’t end quite where I was expecting it to.
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goodness O.O *offers everyone cookies to nibble on while dealing withthe cliffhanger* this is so good!
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Thank you! And I like cookies. 🙂
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Freaky Deaky : )
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Heh, thanks. 🙂
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Ah, it turned out beautifully! Oooh, and you snuck scary Sarah in on me – that’s the picture that always freaked me out. I am very pleased with this update – I know how hard you worked on it and I must say it was worth the effort!
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Thank you!
I’m glad you’re pleased with it. I’m not really. And I didn’t work on it as much as I’ve worked on others. Had a bit of a block and lack of motivation to overcome this week.
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Hmm….so he wants to join her together with her friends. I wonder if he means to use the life fruit from their seeds to keep Lilith alive, and “join them together” in that way (using what is left of their extinguished lives to keep her alive).
I am intrigued by the type of death he’d pick for her, and why he wouldn’t let that type of death occur for all her friends–do you only get life fruit seeds from fiery deaths? He’s using an interesting argument–he says that he wants to give her eternal life, but at the same time, he’s making it seem like she has nothing to live for, so she’ll cave in and let him kill her.
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Bella and Shannon didn’t die in fires. I think you get seeds from any sort of death.
And yes, that was the point. 🙂 To say hey, you’ve got nothing left to lose so why not come and be my angel?
I suppose I can go and put the most perfect Seth song ever in existence in the Babble thread at VSS now.
The join together thing will probably be explained more fully in the next couple of updates.
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When Seth said…
‘You will always be as…’
The next words that followed in my head were-‘…Beautiful as you are now’
And that’s what I bet he was going to say but he balked instead.
I’m wondering what Lilith is feeling. She looks…uncomfortable and shell-shocked. I would be too. I think she was expecting some physco blood-thirsty killer to hold her up at gunpoint but instead…this dude who JUST killed her boyfriend is hitting on her. Awkward…
And how old is he? He looks like 40-something and Lilith looks somewhere in the 20s to me.
Great job!
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That is how I found the perfect Seth song. Because yeah, that is totally how I meant that dialogue to go and I was reading over it and I was like “Hey, that reminds me of this song I liked in high school.” So I looked up the lyrics because I never knew the title or group and found it on YouTube and omg. Most perfect Seth song ever in existence.
It’s Possum Kingdom by the Toadies. 🙂
Thank you so much! I can always count on you to get it. 🙂
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I have been thinking about my sim story. I love the plot, but I can’t seem to get the pictures right. I found that my true desire is to write the story out and am about 30 pages into it. I posted it on my quanta1000.wordpress.com. You could skim through it if you want! Great job eagarly awaiting the next update! ^.^
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Of course I’ll check it out! You always get where I’m going with Valley so I imagine it’s quite good.
And yeah – actually I’m taking this week off official Valley and writing a full text Seth short for a writing contest this week. I’ll post it on here when it’s done – I’m just going to add a few pictures for illustration. I totally understand just wanting to write it out.
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This is where we all jump up and down shouting: RUN LILITH RUN!
Great chapter 🙂
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I’m going to try and get the story moving soon, so hopefully we will see Lilith’s reaction in an update or two.
Thank you!
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Great! It turned out really well, and I love the close up photos. I said it to you before, but I love the sense of the police coming, of something threatening to prick the Lilith/Seth bubble, even if it’s only something Seth is using to scare her – I’m interested what effect the potential of another danger has on Lilith – will it make her run or draw her in further?
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Yay thanks!
I think we will see what happens to Liith fairly soon.
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I love your story so far, I’ve been following it every week… and I realized that Jason is actually in the sim bin in CAS! I was looking through and I was like holy shamoley– it’s Jason back from the dead! Anyways, just a funny moment. keep going, I can’t wait for the ending!!
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Thank you! I do plan to keep going. 🙂
And yes, Jason is pretty much straight from the sim bin. When I first made him I wasn’t planning on him being around much past the first couple of chapters.
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LOVE Seth. The End. =]
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Me too. 🙂 A lot.
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Oh wow, it did not help that I was sitting here in the dark when I read this, that’s for sure, lol. I used to love that Toadies song when I was in high school too, and I can see why you picked it as the perfect Seth song. I second quanta1000’s comment that Seth was going to say “beautiful as you are now,” that’s exactly what followed in my head too. I got chills reading this, esp. the part where he tells her she’ll have to die to, yet I find myself liking Seth more and more despite the fact that I want Lillith to run far away from him…but there’s the part of me that’s curious about finding out just what would happen if they ended up together somehow. Would she join him in killing people too? He seems to have the ability to imtidate and turn people over to his way of thinking. Wow again, fantastic update, I am on the edge of my seat, anxiously waiting for more.
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Thank you!
And yes, that is very interesting about how they would be if they actually did get together. I may explore that after the official story is done.
I love Seth myself. And as soon as I get World Adventures I’m sending him to Egypt and I’m going to do a little short for a writing competition at Boolprop about his time there. I like to think that between Sarah’s death and his return to Sunset Valley he was off researching ambrosia and moving from place to place as he kept his life fruit supply up.
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I’m a little worried…. 😉
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About what? 🙂 I think that my little World Adventures trip with Seth will get me back into it and so it’ll get good again if that’s what you’re worried about.
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Worried for Lilth…. WA works for you? LUCKY!! For me it goes until the load screen and doesn’t load. My Vista laptop meets the requirements, so I’m not sure what’s wrong. Then also my Windows XP PC that has all my Sims 2 games on it meets the requirements, and same thing. Best $50 I’ve ever spent.
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I just went to look up the lyrics for the song you mentioned, and oh my!
“I can promise you
You’ll stay as beautiful
With dark hair
And soft skin…forever
Forever”
Where do you have the complete list of Seth songs?
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Ooh, nevermind, I found your LJ in your side links. Sweet. I loved this update!
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I still need to add Possum Kingdom to the list. It was too spoiler-y before.
I might add even more, lol. The soundtrack for my upcoming Seth short is the Guns & Roses song Used to Love Her. 🙂
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Loved it! It will be a sad day when this comes to an end and I always have to read the update at least twice to make sure I catch everything. lol
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Awww, thanks. 🙂 We are getting fairly close to the end, but I plan to keep doing little shorts in the same universe with the same characters. 🙂
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*shudder* Creepy!
I love those first three pictures, by the way. Great effect!
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Thanks! 🙂 It’s the same effect as Nightmare, just slightly better computer and added unsharp mask and a screen layer.
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The first thing that came to mind in regards to what Seth said to Lilith was, “Divide and Conquer” – separate her from everything she knows and loves, isolate her and render her vulnerable and then move in for the kill. That way, her resistence is at a minimum.
I am curious as to how he will kill her. He says she doesn’t need to burn – I am wondering if Seth is not a little bit lonely and having Lilith as an eternal companion would make life that much more interesting.
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Oh wow, great observations. Seth is certainly lonely and trying to reach out to Lilith, yes. In his demented Seth way.
And he did certainly isolate her from her loved ones and make her vulnerable. He’s a skilled predator, that one.
Thank you!
As for how he’s planning for her to die – we’ll see that soon, I think.
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I hope Lilith gets away… Maybe she has to get rid of him in order to “lift the curse” and escape… 🙂
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We will see fairly soon, I think. Nice idea about lifing the curse. I like it. 🙂
Thanks!
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😛 You’re Welcome!
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Ahhh!
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Did I not comment before? I thought I had.
He is getting downright Vincent Price creepy now. How will she be just as she is now if he turns her into a life fruit seed? Does he plan to make her a ghost? Does he plan to mummify her? I think the poor boy needs a dictionary.
Ohhhhh… Emma is one of the reasons that he wants to keep living? Am I interpreting that image right? Now I’m more curious than ever about what happened to her!
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Mmmmm DB! I LOVED Vincent Price! Didn’t you just want to hug him in Edward Scissorhands?
Misty, you are drawing me in to Seth’s spell! I am reluctantly loving him! How dare you!!! LOL
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Edward Scissorhands rocks! 🙂
And Seth certainly does cast a spell does he not? 🙂 I’ve been in love with him since the first time I played him myself.
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That will be explained in the next couple of updates too – well, as much as Seth ever explains anything. He is after ambrosia, yes? 😉
We’ll find out what happened to Emma. That’s an interesting idea about the pic – I was just reusing it from Alive. Hmm.
Thank you so much yay!
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I still feel like Lilith will snap out of it and fight back even if she is facing prison or worse. One thing I keep wondering…how old is Seth? His existence alone would be Lilith’s defense I would think.
It is also interesting at the method by which he killed. I wonder why he would choose fire for some and not for others. Jason of course I can understand since he may have been viewed by Seth as a rival for Lilith’s affections but how he chose for the others has me thinking. And what does he have planned for Lilith if not fire? Hopefully we will know that soon!
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Didn’t he poison Bella? Maybe because she was Emma’s friend he thought that would be kinder? In his weird little kaleidoscoped perSethtive?
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this is the most twisted, dysfunctional, messed-up, stalker-ish love that makes me want to read more. Shame on you, but shame on me more! 🙂
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Heh. I was thinking the other day that Bella and Edward don’t have anything on Lilith and Seth – Edward’s whole thing is that he doesn’t want to kill her, after all. 😉
But yeah, there’s nothing healthy about Lilith/Seth. That’s what makes it fun. 🙂
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Another twist! You keep surprising us time after time.
You may think I’m mad, but I can’t help wondering what his hand feels like, what Lilith felt when he finally touched her for the first time.
You are fab, Misty! 🙂
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Thank you!
And you certainly aren’t mad. I wonder what it feels like too. 🙂 Maybe she’ll tell us at the beginning of the next update.
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NOOO ahhh how long does it usually take for you to do one update? I started reading your story and it took me the whole day to go up to this point. Wonderful story! Very dark.
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Thank you!
I didn’t put a link to Interlude at the end of this chapter because it’s not official Valley, so if you didn’t read it here’s the link.
These days it takes about a week to do an update. Get started on Thursday or Friday and finish Saturday or Sunday.
Yay I’m glad you liked it, and very honored that you read it all in one go. 🙂
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how will you make her come back to life or is he tricking her? It sounds like he loves her lol
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We’ll wait and see how much gets explained in the story – I never know how much Seth is going to tell.
And yes, it certainly does sound as if he’s drawn to her in some way. 🙂
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you should bring every one back to life and turn SETH Into the way he was before he became a siko man person who wants to kill every one so he can make ambrosia but he is a very nice man but bring jason shannon and sarah bella and the lil girlback to life coz it will be great to see jason and Lilith Kiss Again And get mortimer to get back with bella they made a cute couple kk o red my stuff bring em to life and bring mortimer nd bella back together =D all good
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No, Lilith! No! No!
What I would do to slap his hand away from hers! I can’t believe this!
I’d probably shout at the screen if I didn’t think I’d look funny. But gosh, I can’t believe it!
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Oh. My. Freaking. God. It’s scary… bone-chilling… nerve-wracking… and yet, I read on. Even though it’s 10:15 at night and I still have homework to do.
That’s how great you’re story is.
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Awesome shot of Seth when he’s telling Lilith she has to die. He looks very condemning!
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I love taking pictures of my Seth! 🙂 Sometimes I may squeal. *whistles*
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He touched her. Ugh! Oh dear… I hope Lilith runs away… far far away from the madness. She’s losing herself. Who’s the angel? Seth? Lilith? Sarah? Emma?
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Probably the #1 Seth song is Possum Kingdom, by the Toadies.
Make up your mind
Decide to walk with me
Around the lake tonight
Around the lake tonight
By my side
By my side
I’m not gonna lie
I’ll not be a gentleman
Behind the boathouse
I’ll show you my dark secret
I’m not gonna lie
I want you for mine
My blushing bride
My lover, be my lover, yeah…
Don’t be afraid
I didn’t mean to scare you
So help me, Jesus
I can promise you
You’ll stay as beautiful
With dark hair
And soft skin…forever
Forever
Make up your mind
Make up your mind
And I’ll promise you
I will treat you well
My sweet angel
So help me, Jesus
Give it up to me
Give it up to me
Do you wanna be
My angel?
So help me!
Be my angel
Be my angel
Do you wanna die?
I promise you
I will treat you well
My sweet angel
So help me, Jesus
So Lilith would be Seth’s angel. 🙂
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How did he find her or why did he pick her? He wants to make her immortal? He said something in one of the chapters about figuring out the secret and walking through the fire and she has to die first, implying something comes second. Or he’s obsessed with her?
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