Since everyone who left feedback this time agrees that one or both of them are being idiots, I'll just say, "You're right! And we've got two more chapters of idiocy to go!"

Next part up soon! After that, one more chapter and a brief epilogue, and we will have come to the end of a very long road.


Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.

- Stephen King, from On Writing