Author's note: So basically this is the draft versions of Parts IX and X, combined; I decided in the "final" version to put them together in a single chapter, as I think it flows better that way.  Otherwise, I haven't made any significant changes - a couple of minor alterations to the wording, nothing that would jump out at you if you read the ( Read more... )

Author's note: Yay! I finally typed this monster up.  Transferring things from pencil gets kinda cumbersome sometimes.  Anyway, this follows from the previous chapter draft (on which 

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Author's note: If you read this chapter when I posted it as a draft a few days ago, then you should know that not much has changed.  I had delusions of including a bit more of Obi-Wan's investigation, but the follow-up interview was long enough to be a chapter by itself, and finally I decided that it should be.  So it breaks here, with the ( Read more... )

Author's note: OMG, YOU GUYS, I NEED HELP.  Because I have rewritten this section no less than a dozen times, and it still doesn't … quite … work.  It is supposed to cover roughly the same territory of exposition as the original Chapters Two - Four, thus bringing us up to the meeting with Evinne (can't wait!) and the fight scenes in Ziro's palace ( ( Read more... )