We've got this moment now to live, Then it's all just dust and dark

[lenora_rose]

let Love give what it gives, let's let Love give what it gives.

And 870 words last night (Plus 223 others promptly cut AGAIN today) later and over 2.5k today, I think I have all but the very absolutely final paragraph.

Said last paragraph will be a pain, because it needs to be even more "just right" than the rest of the denouement, but... I'm not going to write it now. At all.

I'm calling this draft finished. I'm going to drill myself into one of Serpent Prince, Soldier of the Road, or Merlin's Dive until I have a draft, and catch that final paragraph on the post-other-project rewrite. Because by then, I'll see what else I messed up.

140,671 words.

Which means on edit I need to lose 16-20k. But as I said before, I can likely do that in editing the second half alone, merely by stripping scaffolding and unnecessary dialogue.

Oh. Wait, I forgot to say the most necessary thing at this point:


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SQUEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!