DJ! You're alive! And it's not just you that's kicking!

No worries, hon. I know how busy RL can get. And now you're about to have an extremely time consuming excuse. I'm so excited for you!
I apologize to those hardy souls who have stuck it out with me on this story thus far. I have one extremely key conversation in part 8 that I just can't get to "sound" right. I'm going out of town in about an hour and I will be far from any sort of network until Sunday night. I will be taking a printed copy of the next part with me, in the hopes that all that solitude brings back the lovely L/C voices that sometimes live in my head.
Muse willing, I'm posting on Sunday night. <fingers crossed>
Happy Passover/Easter/spring break!