Continuing Readers: Sometimes its the quiet ones you need to pay more attention to. (Even if they don’t want you to pay attention to them.) Cause mischief by reading here.
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I seem to be in the pattern of long updates. I’m not sure what happened other than that sometimes I don’t feel like there is a natural stopping point to break the narrative.  In this case, as I give attention to the neglected Hunter, there was quite a bit I wanted to let him say and think.

The downside of a longer installment is that the tightness of an update is sometimes “off”.   Doing double the editing and rewriting in one week is sometimes hard. In this case, I have so much I want to do with Edmund and to him that I decided not to be so vigilant about the usual word length of the installment.

A special thanks to CSK and TE Waters (back from travels) for humoring me this week and “interviewing” Edmund as well. It was a very helpful exercise in developing this chapter and helping me sort out exactly which of his scabs to scratch .

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