luminosity of exposed organs - 20.14
Chapter glides through the driving snow, ghosting over drifts and swimming through falling flakes, chasing the sound of icicle laughter. Chapter! Woo! Here it is! For you! As of the precise moment of writing this post, I do not yet know if this is truly the final chapter of arc 20 - but I suspect it is! (Or okay maybe there's gonna be a chapter of falling action.) Heather and her found family, and a very old mage, and only one of them is going to survive this, but how? Time to find out! And here's that link!
https://katalepsis.net/2023/06/10/luminosity-of-exposed-organs-20-14/
This week's password is 'voidable'.
An epub version is attached too, as always!
Comments (10)
A trap where the way out is the real trap, delivered by someone judged "not a threat" even AFTER the trap was sprung. I love it!
Thank you so much! Hooray! I've been building to this conclusion for a long time, having Badger put the pieces in place for his true hidden gambit. Really glad how it came out in the end!
While I genuinely don't think Edward had much chance of remaining sane, human, or possibly even viable / uneaten (and as much as I hate his bullshit about what a special boy he is when Heather is literally just the same thing he'd be but at a variable pace and probably much more stable and "human"), I am very glad we didn't see him get to try. Get shrecked on, ya old bastard! Concepts of owning others and a specific karmic comeupance from the consequences of your actions coming back to bite you, hoooo!
Haha, indeed! Heather couldn't truly be sure that Edward wouldn't survive the abyss - the sharks of the void, the leviathans, the cold deep, the process of change - but the risk of him emerging was simply too great. She would have had to find some way of achieving basically what Badger managed anyway. It's always satisfying to see that karmic specificity, yeah! Really glad you liked that!
The only thing more terrifying than a fanatic is a smart fanatic! Well, let's hope the book was worth it. Either way, Lozzie is safe now, so it was worth it either way. Beautiful conclusion.
Oooh, well put, yes. Brains and fanaticism, a dangerous combination. Now they have they book, Evelyn can start the final work on the spell to avoid the Eye, we hope! But Lozzie, yes, Lozzie is safe for the foreseeable future, her long family conflict ended at last. Thank you! I'm really glad this all came together how it did.
Excellent reincorporation! Also, fuck that guy.
Yaaaay, thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. And yes, fuck Edward.
Good God finally lol. This has got to be one the most excruciating waits I've waited on.
Haha, yes! It took rather a long time to bring together all of the narrative threads which combined in this moment, especially Badger's hidden gambit. I'm quite happy with how it all landed, though!