Where has my motivation gone? Who knows. Maybe if I didn't keep forgetting about this altogether, I'd have no problem. Oh well. I'll try to write more but no promises.
Beware: this chapter will come in more than one part, so there will be cliffhangers. Also, I will do something I hate doing: kill off a character. Don't worry, it's not a main character, and at the present time of the story, they are already long dead. But still.