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Oh, and while frantically waiting for the next re-organized chapter, a good long new episode of Lone Wolf Ranch might do me some good!

I feel chapter deprivation creeping in...

… it seems Sevo has a serious abdominal condition. Maybe it’ll be up to Hansi to save his friends life this time around?

..also you may want to decide if it's Caleb - or Carl!

Cliffie bad! Only a longerer chapter, coming soonerer can make up for it!

I'm disappointed. Truly, and deeply disappointed. That Kai, our not quite anal retentive, but very observant, and in his own way - which we happen to like so much - conservative and eloquent Kai ... confuses adapt, and adopt! Shame! Blasphemously confounded lapsing linguist! He'd better clean up his verbal acting, before shacking up with our not so retentive anally accomplished wordsmith. Before ADAPTING to fussy Adam's little quirks, before ADOPTING Arya in his heart....before! Mind you!

While I’m happy to have my puns detected, and cherished by a discerning audience, your emphasis, almost a typesetter’s equivalent of blaring it out loud, is concerning! Think of the children! I trust you to keep your delight about the one with the golf reference, referencing to the randy doc’s good fortune muted now….

What cruelty! What shameless, and utter cruelty! There comes a age inappropriately foul mouthed doc along - and gets a hole in one! Before our erudite prospective lovebirds even manage a first surreptitious phone call! Somehow I wanted Adam to visit his cherished pen-pal at Walter Reeds.... before the discharge.

Ah, yes! Lovely chapter, this! Longerer, is betterer! Not a friend of Haiku here, would you have guessed? I can see the house in the early, morning sun, as well as after the blue hour, when the warm, yellow lights from the windows take over…

Well, well…. that is all good and well! Yet, I do have a complaint! The author - of all people! - opined that a movie would hasten through any scene, lest it’ll be a waste of good film. Let me counter that today’s meager offering in virtual ink is certainly shorter than any movie version playing in my head now!

This Robert business was a lighthearted sideshow after the intensity of the duel, and it's looming aftermath. The Prince, always just a ring away, still has no idea what happened. Greg is atm usurping a Barony, and all the late Baron's official and private possessions. Acting more on a hunch of old "might is right" kind of assumed Vampire Law. He may or may not be right about that. So I look forward to all the politics that will ensue. How the next levels up, and down, in the Vamp hierarchy react. Their demands, expectations, misgivings and the like. Is the seating / confirmation of Greg as the new Baron Pittsburgh a prerogative of the Prince - or has the Viscount, and the Count a say in the matter? Jake is going through his change - and obviously something unexpected happens. I trust he'll heal just fine - so it's something else. An unusual eye color mayhaps?

i wonder when Greg's eyes will change their color again..... Also I wonder - I seem to do that a lot lately - how big house and grounds are? There's an awful lot of staff! And what is the size of the Barony? While George MIGHT have seen a clash between Greg and Evans coming - eventually, I can't see him anticipating an extrajudicial killing in this very night. So the unanswered phone is just plain bad luck - or good fortune. While a Barony in e.g. California would have made it easier to disappear from most local friends and acquaintances for Greg and the gang, this is a convenient location in many other ways. Just the gap till they take up residence at their various institutions of higher learning has to be plausibly filled with explanations.... Is the current plan to attend different Universities and the like in places far apart from each other still an option for the now seated court with a preexistent set of responsibilities?

Of course I am take by the mystery that is Emmet's true nature.... very fast, very magical, empathetic, incredibly rare/desirable, or such - and obviously rather prey than a predator himself. After eleven chapters I put UNICORN on my secret card...

Oh, a proper, premeditated killing in the offing! With some judicial background, to boot! It will take a while to get us there, to give it all a legal framing! After all, Barons can't just walk around killing other Barons - particularly not for actions covered by ancient vampire law! As reprehensible as they might be... I must say, I like the pace of this re-write much better. Not every chapter needs to be filled with fast paced action. But then, of course, chapters need to be longerer, and be published more frequenterer! Every reader knows this! While I am curious as to where Greg will eventually be seated (I'll relish in the pomp and circumstance of the ceremonies involved!) Theres so much still to happen till then. While school barely gets mentioned these days, the little Lords still have to graduate. Then the move to their respective colleges and universities, their accommodations, contact with Greek life...all will be quite exciting. And Greg has to maintain close contact with his Court, and prepare himself for his Barony.

Of course young Rocky dear would get a better insight into the inner workings of his potential new potentate, if they were to live the week in Manny's house. Nothing will get the guy out of the massive mansion, with indoor/outdoor pool, a garage full of fantastic cars, or whatever he'll experience... but I trust in his good core!