I have a fun fact for all of you today: Alaska has its very own time zone. Yup. We sure do. It’s a full 4 hours behind Eastern Standard Time, which is why, until someone in Hawaii joins the WIPpeteers, I will almost always be the last to post my WIPpet. 
Alaska is the northern-most, western-most, AND eastern-most state in the United States. The Unalaskan Islands stretch so far westward they actually cross the prime meridian into the eastern hemisphere. Hence the need for a special time zone.
Fun facts are done; on to the WIPpet itself!
If you’ve been following me for more than a month or so, you already know I have this thing for chocolate. It will, in some form or another, make an appearance in each one of my books, even the high fantasies that have nothing to do with this world. Today, I present Harsha’s chocolate moment. She is hiking through the Alaskan woods, with Zeeb and Seraph as her guides, looking for a faerie. Being a lady with a health condition trying to keep up with a perfectly healthy dragon and werewolf, she naturally falls behind at times. In this instance, she decides not to call for them. Instead…
She decided to break into some of her precious chocolate supply, to celebrate the quiet beauty of the woods. She spotted a fallen tree trunk and tested it for stability. When she was sure it wouldn’t roll, fall into a hidden hole, or crumble under her, she sat down and dug in her backpack for the precious Sea Turtle bar, her very favorite. She would never have thought of it on her own, but dried blueberries and dark chocolate really made a most delicious combination. She took a moment to breathe in the fragrance before taking her first bite. As her teeth crunched through the chocolate bar, she heard a crash in the woods behind her.
Cue foreboding music.
Yuuummmm!
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Just put the word chocolate in the title of your blog post and I’m already smiling! Isn’t it always the way that the minute you sit down to enjoy a little piece of quiet time something will turn up to spoil it. If it is something scary I feel sorry for it – you shouldn’t get between a girl and her chocolate.
We must be practically the same time zone but a day apart… I always feel I post mine so much earlier than everyone else!
No kidding! I’ve been caught munching or sipping chocolate so many times my kids will probably write a tell-all book about their selfish mother when they grow up.
I looked the time zones up once since I noticed we seemed to be on at the same time pretty often. If I remember correctly, you’re about 22 hours ahead of me. So I think of you as being 2 hours behind me, tomorrow.
Crazy aye… so you must be having lunch yesterday? But I can totally relate to Harsha – and you. As a Mum you end up being quite possessive about your chocolate, because those little darlings will have theirs and all yours too if they can get away with it…
I actually ran out the door right after replying to you for a lunchtime playdate.
No fair, I’m sitting here starving waiting for our lunch guests to come over and I’m having to read about chocolate and dried blueberries? Way no fair. Unless said lunch guests bring a sampling with them by chance…
Oops! I rushed right out the door after replying to Raewyn. I will have to bring some as a peace offering on Friday. Or possibly have some available on Saturday as an incentive for potential guests.
we may just hold you to that…
and in case there’s any doubt, I love you for your wonderful friendlerliness (and your kids’ adorable cuteness)…. not your chocolate.
I so want a chocolate and blueberry Sea Turtle Bar right now… am positively drooling
A great bittersweet ending too!
They are soooo yummy! I highly recommend tracking down that brand of chocolate in your area if at all possible.
Would you and Raewyn *please* stop with the time zoning!! It hurts my head so much I need to go eat chocolate. Oh, who am I kidding, I always need to eat chocolate.
Love the scene! My first reaction is, “Hells no! Whatever is sneaking up on me better just step back and wait in line until I’m done with my snack!”
Oh, if only it were so easy for poor Harsha! I’ll give you a little spoiler, though: the chocolate bar survives.
I’m saddened that her time with her candy bar was interrupted.
‘Twas an intense scene to write.
Maybe the crash is a Keebler elf delivering her some chocolate cookies?
Only if they’re delivering some that are made without milk. No character of mine is going to be eating any chocolate chip cookie they can’t share with me, I tell you! *ghetto head/hand wave, snap, snap, snap*
haha, can you post a video of the ghetto head?
Unfortunately, I left it in California. I’ll practice in front of a mirror and see if I can get it back.
Um, chocolate break? Yes, please! Harsha is my kind of character!
You can’t go on a decent adventure without chocolate!
I’m glad I just had some chocolate before reading this post, because otherwise I’d be craving it now! (Still sorta craving it now, but trying to be good!). Great description!
Thank you! …I didn’t know it was possible to not crave chocolate. How do you do that (or sort of do that)?
I don’t know, I sort of just have some… and then I don’t need anymore for a little while? Maybe it’s just a weird quirk I have!
I think you may have a genuine super-power.