Now I just have to write everything that precedes it. And when John goes upstairs and has his Deus Ex Leo moment, well, it's not quite how Edmund or even Helen will expect it. And it brings out, finally, John's good qualities. I hope.

Most of all, thank you for caring and reading and sticking with it. I had to start somewhere and so this is where I did. I've been stuck for so long it felt really good to get a few thousand words down.