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finished chapter 17 (1335 words)
This chapter is going to be humongous some day, because it has two sections which must be expanded. well, humongous by the standards of this book. It's already 3550 words, which is a little longer than the others mostly.
I hope and trust Chapter 18 will be easier. It's just the superstitious wino and his stupid wishes and the revelation that Meranda and Carleen both survived the earlier fracases (which means that Carleen is one tough cookie -- she survived two of them, one with the nonhuman watchers who want to kill everybody and everything that exploits the conduit). I believe though I am not sure that the next to the last showdown occurs in this chapter.
And then I have to figure out some reason that my guy is slightly protected for a while after he meets Candelario and Araceli. Nope, I just figured it out. I had it in my pocket all along: Araceli is the daughter of a curandera. The curandera will have her own special way of understanding my guy, something syncretic and Catholic and Maya, but she will nevertheless be able tor protect him somewhat and for a while, and that will allow the time for the various other events to come along. I guess it means that Araceli has to tumble to his nature pretty quickly.
Today's the day to return the kitchen to functionality. I have done the fun parts already -- putting little artifacts back up on the crown molding/plate rail thing at the top of the California cooler. I used lots of museum-stuff sticky wax. Having lived through one Pretty Big Earthquake, I know what I ought to do, even if I don't always do it.
I hope and trust Chapter 18 will be easier. It's just the superstitious wino and his stupid wishes and the revelation that Meranda and Carleen both survived the earlier fracases (which means that Carleen is one tough cookie -- she survived two of them, one with the nonhuman watchers who want to kill everybody and everything that exploits the conduit). I believe though I am not sure that the next to the last showdown occurs in this chapter.
And then I have to figure out some reason that my guy is slightly protected for a while after he meets Candelario and Araceli. Nope, I just figured it out. I had it in my pocket all along: Araceli is the daughter of a curandera. The curandera will have her own special way of understanding my guy, something syncretic and Catholic and Maya, but she will nevertheless be able tor protect him somewhat and for a while, and that will allow the time for the various other events to come along. I guess it means that Araceli has to tumble to his nature pretty quickly.
Today's the day to return the kitchen to functionality. I have done the fun parts already -- putting little artifacts back up on the crown molding/plate rail thing at the top of the California cooler. I used lots of museum-stuff sticky wax. Having lived through one Pretty Big Earthquake, I know what I ought to do, even if I don't always do it.