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I'm new to this story after finding it a bit late, I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you for taking some of your precious time to gift us with your work, it is appreciated...Thank you!!!

Well, there's a roller coaster of jumbled emotions...I thought the chapter worked well!

There's an old cartoon strip called Pogo that had a panel that sums up Keith's predicament. While the setting has nothing to do with the world Keith lives in, the sentiment expressed could/should apply to Keith. Pogo is looking out over a littered landscape expresses a cogent, pithy thought...

I was referring to the boy king, is he still not with us?

Did he not sneak out and was on his way to sanctuary?

What needs to be done is to give these foreign interlopers a case of Fuckitall in handy 16-ounce beverage containers...

Where might this be located?

Keep in mind an axiom of one illustrious Benjamin Franklin..." Fish and visitors smell after three days"!!!

Oh my, oh my, oh my....just where could this possibly go????

Jimmy hasn't learned much if not anything...It's gonna come back to bite him in the a$$!!!

Looks like a need for some Bounty paper towels and Windex...

Well, that was/is a kick in the pants, what is needed is some source of information of the military capabilities of the forces aligned across the channel...

From Sun Tzu's Art of War... • He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. • He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. • He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. • He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. • He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.”

When one door opens, another closes, or vice versa...So the time of the boy king is coming to an end, what havoc awaits??

Some interesting observations and reveals in this chapter, makes one want to know more...loved the following... “And the queen of melodramatics,” Kenny said. “Serious, Babe, could you at least take the volume down. I'm sure the characters in the other stories can hear you.”

So many questions had answers revealed, all of the comments above are spot on!! Having said that, is Long Ears a changeling or was Micco able to, for the lack of better words, cure it? That it was immune to bullets is the stuff of nightmares!!! Martina got what was coming to her, sadly she acted on emotion and frustration, not a good combination when plotting to murder and absconding with a fortune... We still have the worst part of the hurricane to get through, thankfully the rest of the wolves are ok, I worry about the panthers, or did I miss something?? While it is fantastic that Micco was able to rise above and conquer his fears and rise above a life-threatening situation, what is left are questions regarding the loss of his family in the fire, who, how, what, and why??? One of your best chapters yet and there's still the ubiquitous red herrings...

Gonna show my age here a bit, the stash of brown paper parcel-era gay porn @Leslie Lofton brings back memories of growing up gay in the 70's and 80's just after the dinosaurs extinction...for someone of my ilk and age at the time, it was how many of us were exposed to the wider worlds of gay sex and the mechanics involved. I can remember many a afternoon perusing the 'selection' of magazines from straight to gay, some of the cutest boys were sadly straight...but to see their bits in stop action photos...double wow...then when I got brave enough to enter the dank, sticky floor, thread bare seats, bleach smelling theater, well some things are best left to imagination...along with the requisite 'gentleman in the London Fog rain coat... Like others, I also hope to see more of Toby and Ha-Joon and I also thought Harper would make an appearance...fingers crossed she does...or reconnects with Carey...a photo shoot with the two of them would be hoot...talk about cementing one's reputation... Actually, I think the sequence of the chapters works well as they are!!

Can't disagree with any of the comments above, all well put and very succinct! I wonder, if after visiting and Mum's visiting the garden, if somehow, she sees the light and is the one to upbraid morainic Miles the moron and put him to rights???? And who says that global warming/climate change affects only the weather???

The family needs to back off of the teasing and poking the bear when it comes to Dylan, several chapters back I noticed his father getting his verbal jabs in...time to put their muzzles on...

Sad that to this day we have "so-called Christians"... I nodded without hesitation, but Frances Howard was aghast at the suggestion, “Lord Eli, Mr. Tallis, and his group are of a lower station than you, why would you break bread with them?” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I answered Frances coyly, “During this time of year, it is important to remember that Christ dined with everyone without regard to status or rank,” turning back to Thomas, “We would be honored to be your guests, Mr. Tallis.”

Poor Edward, damned if you do and damned if you dont! I am beginning to see the long game Eli is playing... “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”

I reached out and was led to believe that there were some who didn't play fair or well with others in using that feature...

It is a crying shame that John Dudley isn't found under his horse...

I'm sure this is the first of many altercations, the loss of Father Archibald may prove to be a boon in the short term, I fear it may be akin to poking the bear...

Retribution justified...however the following applies very well... Well done is better than well said. —Benjamin Franklin