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I, um, put out a chapter?! what?!

Read SOL Gen 4, Chapter 4 here.

I’d not yet unlocked for the morning shift, and I thought not to do it now, but that figure was one I had seen before. Even then, I thought it inappropriate to say she was familiar to me. She wasn’t. I didn’t know her name or where she’d come from, and I certainly didn’t know what to do with her now that she was here.

Hello, Anya. I see I have two letters from you. I am sorry for taking so long to reply. 

I am the Seth that went through the hole in the woods, and I am also the Seth who had to come back to San Myshuno. Perhaps there is only one Seth after all.

The next chapter of SOL is up on wordpress now, and you can read it here :) 

In which the cousins try to convince their parents to let them move away with Q, and learn to fight the Council... to varying degrees of success.

“Definitely not.” She fidgeted on the sofa. “Dova is cute, temper tantrums aside. It’ll be nice to have someone like that in my life…”

“All kids are different, but he’s a good one.”

“What’s he like?” Shanna asked, staring down at her stomach.

“Shan, if I got down a rabbit hole telling you what all the future kids of this branch of family are like, I’ll never stop.” Q rubbed a hand over his hair. With a pang, Shanna realised she would soon look older than him.

“Wait,” she said, as something suddenly occurred to her. “How does all the half-vampire stuff work with the kids? Like – are they like us? Or fully human? Or…” She trailed off at Q’s guilty look.

“You know how I said I knew how we defeat the council?”

Shanna nodded.

It hadn’t been easy. He’d been working on a deadline of a few months with something that should have been years in the making, and until that day staring into the water, Q hadn’t even known things like this were possible. Fae and vampires and werewolves and warlocks – fine. He didn’t know how they’d come to be, but he knew that they were there, and that was enough. Somehow the presence of human myths had made them easier to swallow.

But this?

Q could only trust in the futures. He wasn’t endangering his family, he was protecting them.