#parallel story

Written for the prompts "Festivities/All lives touch other lives" for @pla-gen-week

Finally got this one somewhere I was happy with it!  And then had to fight my way through suddenly slow internet connection to even post it.  But it’s here now!  Zombie’s intro story is nearly done!

Ardyn’s Scythe

Commissioned a little chibi Zombie from @industrialprincess and he’s so cute!  (also very Done - thankfully his story has put him on much better terms with his boss and supervisor, so he’s less afraid of telling a customer “no” than he was in the beginning.) 

It’s as revised as it’s going to be.  Like I said in the end notes, I’ve been anxious to get to this one in both the wanting to share and afraid of doing poorly senses.  That said, I like a lot about this chapter - revealing the depth of the love Charlie’s friends have for him, the interactions between Aron and Janor, the way Janor interacts with Zombie, Zombie’s flaw running full tilt into the worst manifestation yet and him realizing it...just, it was fun to write!  And I know the first draft got no complaints, but I still hope that I didn’t do it wrong.  I hope you enjoy the read!

Chapter 11 of Free Hands is here!  This one took some more fiddling from the first draft because I introduced the idea of Foggy unwittingly causing tension between him and Zombie due to...well, the entire industrial situation with Muds and Sligs, and then I, uh...forgot to come back to it.  So I had to go back and weave that in and for a while I thought I’d have to change the entire back half of the chapter?  But it worked out.  Enjoy!

(But not all the time as you can see on the last screenshot where his ghost is red like in Chap.14)

Ardyn is on fire!!!