Hi! Just a quick announcement: I'm taking a short vacation and won't be posting this week. To be clear, I still have a very thick buffer (40-ish posts) and I'll get back to regular scheduling soon, but I'm still making up my mind about some interludes I want to include, and I'll give it some more thought while I'm away. Sorry for the delay!

  Meanwhile, feel free to ask in the comment section if you have some curiosities about the setting or the events so far. Some really nice questions popped up along the way.

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  Bye!

  Edit: don't worry, I'm not dropping this! I had a busy time at work, and a beta reader convinced me to make more substantial edits to act 2 than I was initially planning. I see no point starting to post if I have to pause again later because I catch up with edits, so I'll start posting again when I'm done.