Sunder 5.5 (Patreon)

Well, mostly. My editor still needs to give it a pass, but I like this version better, so I can't imagine he'll have too much to correct. In either case, I'll swap out this version for that revised version when he's gone through it with a comb, but since he's offline right now, that'll have to wait until tomorrow.

For now, here you guys go. 

I'm not sure how many of you took the chance to read the CiP version and watch the evolution of this chapter from the previous version to this one, so I shan't spoil anything, now.

This is, however...not quite the end of this arc. There's still a few chapters left. As for the main confrontation that's supposed to arise... That may or may not get pushed back to arc 6, Tyranny. We'll see. I'll have to read up how canon handles that confrontation, because I have a hard time imagining that fight lasting all of arc 6.

Tomorrow, I start work on 5.6 and 5.7 - yes, simultaneously, because I happen to know where both start and where 5.6 ends. As an apology for the extreme delay in this one, everyone will be getting the CiP for 5.6, although CiP 5.7 defaults back to the $13+ guys.