[UPDATE] Chapter 10 is in "prereader" status · 11:13pm Jan 9th, 2022
Pretty much what it says on the tin.
Chapter 10 is much shorter (and when I told my pre-reader about the length, there was a VERY audible sigh of relief over the phone) at a mere 3k+ words. Chapter 11 will be a touch longer, including 3-4 scenes of world-building and loose-thread-tying, and then the epilogia. (Yes, there'll be several epilogues. I blame Brandon Sanderson.)