Well, I decided to upload the chapter early as tomorrow is going to be crazy, what with painting and ritual stuff... so anyway.

I am looking forward to people's comments on this chapter, as there is some fun stuff in there that changes the tide of things and ups the stakes of the game. I figured that it might get some responses and thus it would be nice to see. I actually dig your comments and several of them have actually made me shift some things in the story or add things that were not there to start with. I really value them.

Besides arguing over little things in the text is what I was trained to do as an English major. So, seeing other people do that gives me a happy. So please comment and have discussions over what the story could mean and where it looks like its going. It helps me as a writer and it is enjoyable.

Ta..