(aka “Part 5, The Mysterious Estate”)
Continuing Readers: Brains will blow up here.
New Readers: Start here. Read the notes about the story here.
Zut alors! Another unplanned double-length installment! Once I had committed to revealing something in this conclusion to this chapter (not without considerable angst on my part), a conversation needed to be lengthened to explore some of the beliefs/thoughts about a particular thing of import. (Thus, we ended up with a really long conclusion to the chapter -_-.) I still have qualms that it is not sufficiently clear, but I’ll trust that your comments will certainly touch on that.
Next week, a neglected Hunter receives a large number of visitors and begins to stir up a mess not entirely of his own making.
And for those of you who missed my Tumblr sketches, I reference them here because one is relevant, and the other is pure silliness: