#virenweek

This is my last Viren Week 2020 piece before I get back to work on The Time That Is Given Us. As such, please consider this a "deleted scene" -- it is freshly written, but it's been coalescing in my head almost since I started the overall story itself, and I have constantly debated myself about whether to actually write it. Ultimately I decided that while it didn't quite have a home in the main story, my Viren Week fun was a great excuse to exorcise it from my brain meats. It also serves as a bit of a teaser for what is to come in Book 5.

Naturally, that means there's spoilers for The Time That Is Given Us, as this takes place after Chapter 7 and before Chapter 9, so if you are the sort of person who might be bothered by that, go read that first.