Yay, another chapter done. Took longer than I thought, sorry. Anyway, the story now has over 75K words! Slowly getting there! Anyway, as always, chapter proofread by McStuffins. If you find any formatting errors, let me know. Porting from gdocs is a pain as always.

I'll be out for a while now, though, due to having to undertake a catheter ablation. So, that's a few days in the hospital of absolute boredom for me. If I can, I'll try to bring my laptop along and write some more horsewords while there. Just in case, however, you should expect a delay.

I wonder if he could excuse it as gut bacteria...