*gawps*

You know, I may inadvertently done something clever again. I mean, I was stunned when I was writing Stars, finally came up with a way for the ponies to win, and went back over the chapters I'd already written and realised I'd given them all the clues and Chekov's Arsenal they needed, but this time...

One of the themes I'm working into The Shadow over Hinnysmouth is memory (playing with the symbolism of water). Hinnysmouth features seaponies, who for obvious reasons I've also described as Hippocampi. And I've just remembered that the Hippocampus is that part of the brain that consolidates information from short-term memory to long-term memory.

Sometimes I amaze myself. Usually because I've done some utterly boneheaded, but this time because I've accidentally done something intelligent.