Hello, I wanted to make a quick technical update: starting from Chapter 4, all chapters above 3k words will be divided into sub-chapters.

The reason to do this is two-fold: first, to make the story more comfortable to read in bite-sized chunks, and second, to have a higher number of updates, which will keep the novel "visible" for longer.

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My aim is for each update to be at logical breaks in the story, and to be about 1500 words long. This won't be always possible, so there will be segments that can be considerably shorter (800-900 words), or longer (2000-3000 words). I prefer scene-appropriate breaks over wordcount consistency, so that will dictate how large each update will be.

Thanks for your attention!