[Reversal of Fortune] Progress Report

Okay, so I might miss that "few days" soft deadline I gave myself and you guys, but it's for a good reason, I promise. I went into my notes and reviewed things, and I found that I really needed to restructure and replan the final few chapters, considering the way things kinda happened in the previous chapters. Along with that, I made a few small edits to other chapters to make the message I'm trying to get across more clear.

Most notably in those edits is some slight rephrasing in Chapter 5, where Celestia and Luna are discussing how Ryan has Nightmare-like creature inside him. The message I was trying to send was that they figure that he's dangerous, and might explode if given the wrong stimulus, which is what I meant by Luna calling him "volatile," but it wasn't progressed to the point where they had to do something drastic about it, i.e. friendship blast him. Their plans were on track to get him out of Equestria with the tools to face his demons with as much certainty as possible that he wouldn't blow up on their home turf.

So for those of you who remember that chapter, or wish to reread it, that's the explanation of what's going on there. For the rest of you, I'm still working out Chapter 6, and it's gonna be a little more time. I have to decided if I want to cut and replace this one scene at the end of it, or keep both of them in and raise the chapter count from "yeah, that's pretty decent" to "that's a lot of horse-words." Feedback on that would be appreciated, but keep in mind that if it gets cut, I might not have a place to put it back into the story.

edit:
I'm a total liar, I just bust through it and wrote the rest of the chapter. The scene was cut, as the word count without it is 7,700 and I think I can put it in chapter 7 to raise its word count a little more. So now I just need to reread it a few times over the next two or three days, check with a prereader or two, and then it'll be up.