Well, crapdoodles.

[agilebrit]

Ben going on the back burner lasted as long as I remembered that there was a point of my own canon that I needed to fix at the start of the thing. I managed to fix it (a wolfsbane net should be draped over someone lying on his back, not wrapped completely around his body, lest the part that is getting no light and squished in the bargain up and dies and dumps very many nasty toxins into that person's body, thus killing him much faster than you might want to, and boy is that sentence a mess, like I care), after much swearing and tearing out of hair. My canon is once again internally consistent, go, me.

And I have also realized that the (original) first part of the Chains story...doesn't actually work. A few days ago, I scribbled an actual beginning to the thing, and now the part that I scribbled before, which I thought was the beginning? Isn't, nor does it work. I can probably salvage pieces of it and finagle those in somehow, but I think my Captain of the Guards is going to morph into a Head of Protocol or something similar. Because my Master at Arms can do double duty as a Captain of the Guards (it's a small kingdom), and I need a Head of Protocol to deal with the fact that my Prince needs to get married.

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. I don't want this to turn into a novel. Novels are hard.