word count: 10,477

[thanate]

Chapter 5 was in fact a monster (3.5K) but it's finally over. Yay. And I am ahead of schedule (my schedule, 9K for today, 11 by tomorrow, and the official one which wants 10K by the end of the weekend) but am starting to maifest a distressing tendancy to get annoyed with people who want to do stuff like talk to me, and won't go away and let me write, or waste time pretending I'm about to get back to writing...