I meant to work on "Secrets." Instead, I got distracted by "Harvest," one of my many in-various-states-of-progress original stories. The rough draft is currently 10,450 words long, and while I'm still several scenes away from the end, I do think I've entered the final section of the story. In other words, while Ekanu and Denifar are going to give this sexual/romantic relationship thing one more try, they've both started to realize (at least subconsciously) that it's probably not going to work out. And while Denifar's waterworks project has just been indefinitely extended, Ekanu's job sorting Yfane's papers is drawing to a close, so unless she wants to stay in Ileara as that chapterhouse's permanent music mistress, she's going to get on a ship and leave within two months at the outside.
( Tangentially, following RaceFail09 has made me aware that I haven't really addressed ethnicity within Firsthome... )
(And man, does this new dimension complicate my world history something fierce! But it will be better for this work. Of that, I am firmly convinced.)
( Tangentially, following RaceFail09 has made me aware that I haven't really addressed ethnicity within Firsthome... )
(And man, does this new dimension complicate my world history something fierce! But it will be better for this work. Of that, I am firmly convinced.)