[Hereafter] Chapter LV: Aetna (Patreon)

"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them..."

A couple of things delayed this, not the least of them being how exhausted I was for three straight days last week. Another was a last second rewrite to cut out some of the fluff and exchange it for a little more progression. Doing it this way also gives Rika the ability to make that reference at the end. 

Not too much happens this chapter, though. It's a transition chapter, meant to get the characters from where they were to where they need to be, and starting the chapter with, "Suddenly, they're at Mount Etna" felt too abrupt.

EDIT: Moving down.