Interlude 6.a: Quantum Liner Collapse (Patreon)

Numerous things conspired to delay this past its intended release date, none of which I was happy with. The first and most egregious was that, even though the second half was written first and quickly, the first half resisted me utterly.

The second most important one is that my editor and I somehow wound up just missing each other three days in a row, and only in the last hour were we both on and up for it enough to add the finishing touches.

Anyway. This chapter goes to some pretty dark areas. It doesn't get gory, I don't do explicit descriptions of guts spilling out of bodies or anything like that to begin with, so the violence is sort of left up to your imagination.

As for the chapter itself... Eh. If I had a better grasp on Coil's character, if I had an easier time getting into his head, I think I could have done him a bit better. But the last time I did something like that was with Gilgamesh, and I was almost physically ill writing some of his dialogue, that time.

6.3 is next, and we move onto the main conflict of this arc. It's, uh, it's gonna be the hardest thing to write, I think, but it's leading up to the moment I've wanted to get to the most in this story, so the payoff will be phenomenal and so totally worth it.