Heh. I saw the friend e-mail just after I posted the story, and thought, "Woah, that was fast!" assuming that you'd friended me after seeing this chapter. But no, t'was the other way 'round. In a strange turn of events, this weekend I have to drive to Chicago (grumble grumble) so I'm posting this week's chapter early!

I'm glad you liked Burning Boy. I wish I would have been done with this one by the end of the Big Boom challenge so I could have posted it in its entirety, but that was never realistically going to happen, so one chapter a week it is! Thanks for reading, and I hope this chapter lives up to your expectations!