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!

This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.

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.

Bye!

Edit: took a second week off due to a long and unfortunate sequence of events whcih *started* with a cat opening a vein in my wrist and me bleeding all over my friend's house. Will restart posting this Saturday.