Just to let you guys know I'm serious about coming off hiatus, I'm proud to announce that I've got the first draft of chapter 9 done. It's umm... It's really rough, and I've made some questionable writing decisions concerning it's structure and content in order to shorten the wordcount and speed the pacing back up to where it was in earlier chapters, but it's done. Whether it comes out tomorrow depends on how much editing I can get done in the meantime, and if my pre-readers confirm that those