Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.2
Chapter snuggles down deep in a bed of loam, dreaming of moles and earthworms, and gnawing on stray roots.
https://katalepsis.net/2025/03/21/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-2/
This week's password is: lure
An epub version of the chapter is attached below, like always!
Woo! Second chapter of the second book! An auspicious number? Okay, well, perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself by saying that. But all the same, another chapter!!! I hope you enjoy this one too, dear readers; I am having an absolute blast with Maisie's voice, she's already wildly out of control and has firmly ripped the story from my grasp. I hope you enjoy the chapter!
So, as things continue to shape up behind the scenes, now that the girls are on the page and doing the things and rapidly leaving my control, I'm able to offer some tentative predictions about structure - namely, that this arc is likely to be rather long.
How long, exactly? I don't know yet. 15-20 chapters? 60-100k words? I hesitate to put numbers on this, not yet.
I thought this might happen, but I wanted to get a couple of chapters published first and see how things shape up, before I said anything. And this is still tentative, at current. It depends very heavily on Maisie herself (I ... can't stop her, at this point, she's in control now.) She very well may go in a different direction. But it's likely that arcs in Book Two are going to be longer than the average was back in Book One, excluding arc 24 of course, that was an outlier.
Like I said, this isn't confirming anything yet! I'm just peeling back the curtain on a bit of the process, I suppose?
Or ... Maisie's process?
In either case, on with the show! Here we go!
Comments (14)
i really like the cut of her gibberish. the extra words just mean more kata per lepsis
Haha! Thank you! Her dialogue is very unique, I've pretty much just been letting her go wild with it. More Kata per lepsis, indeed! Glad you're enjoying this!
I’m not used to waiting for a chapter drop, after having binge read all of book 1. Now there’s a hard to be continued and I’m totally relating to Maisie’s “Oh, get on with it” vibe in this chapter! Another Beautifully drawn character, you’re so very good at this!
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you're enjoying all this! Maisie as a character has both surprised and delighted me as well. And yes! Welcome to reading week-by-week! It's a very different experience, and I hope that it's just as enjoyable, despite all the regular intervals between chapters. I'll keep doing my absolute best!
Everything’s coming up Maisie!
She's getting everything she wants! An adventure! A friend! Some stabbing!
Gorm for days; deep sump of gumption, plussed and gruntled to be "trapped" by a tender wannabe malign fairy morsel
Oh gosh! Gorm at maximum! Thank you for such a delightful comment, puts a smile on my face. And you're right, Maisie is both plussed and gruntled!
I like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference. Never forget your towel! And what a cute towel it is, too. Sorry, tea towel. A very cute tea towel. Now then, I am very much looking forward to where this goes. Let the hilarity and misadventures of Maise continue! And can we talk about the gorm? So much gorm. Not so much to where it becomes too much, but she most certainly has it.
Praem actually made a tiny reference like this back in Book One, but it was a lot more subtle; here we see that seed bear fruit! Maisie has learned from the best (Praem), and knows when it's important to keep your towel close to hand. Tea towel! Is that a Britishism? I think it must be. And thank you!!! I'm really enjoying Maisie's voice and POV, and also looking forward to where she goes next. As for the gorm, well, Maisie's not afraid to show it off!
in awe at Maisie's gorm
Swinging her gorm around like it's going out of style.
I'm super excited! Really loving Book 2 so far. I certainly won't complain about longer arcs, but we'll have to see what Maisie thinks. Okay, I can't wait anymore, jumping in!
Thank you so much!!! I'm really loving this too, even more than I expected, and I'm delighted it's started off so well. Longer arcs are quite likely, but it's down to Maisie, indeed!