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I should have asked before Lee, but is there a schedule for when chapters may appear, or will it be by Executive Order?

Had to kill the tractors, I didn’t want to harm the oxen or mules. Sad that 'Stars' was KIA 😥. It could have been worse. As for "tractors" can't blame "fat fingers, small keyboard" with 'i' and 'c' being 2 rows and 4 keys apart. Possibly wrong glasses 😎 (eye NOT shot), or just blame Herr Otto Korreck, das ist schlecht. 😟

Jeez @Lee Wilson, not only are you going 'Old School' for musical references (aka's), and 'Geezer Rock' but sadly, many who have passed on to the ultimate Big Gig, somewhere 🌈. But "thanks for the memories" (⛷️) 😥

"Ships and soldiers"? It's plane to sea that Curtis didn't get his intelligence from 'dear old dad' West. Hopefully DNA will prove Anthony is 'Major Dad'. (Well it appears I've covered three of five main "service" branches, plus one of the 'alphabet' bunch 😲. Bonus points @Lee Wilson)?

Good story so far that "cuts the mustard." So much so that it deserves a couple of ⭐⭐, but since Majors in U.S. can't have any, it's a pass ... for now @Lee Wilson 😉

If for some reason Maj. Anthony Greiss doesn't go after 'dear old dad' I suspect Lt. Cynthia Collins would have no problem giving him a short head start, down range during a 'live fire' exercise 🦆🎯.

With his bio-dad AG a Westie? No "fags" there with Petered out Hagswidth as SecWhore. Even a dead dog laps him on track. This looks to be a bad trip down mammary lane. Puny Puns on Moanday.

I won't echo the previous comments about demonic 👿 Donna, as I have also come across far too many of these shrieking harpies. Her 'Slinked In' ideal career would be as a "Karen" of HOA (HomeOwners Association, an organization in a residential community that sets and enforces rules for properties and common areas. The 'head' is often a belligerent, opinionated, "Always Right and Never Wrong" individual typically a 'Karen'; frequently described as someone who "Can't Understand Normal Thinking". (Sorry, Not Sorry. 🤣.) I hope 🙏 that when Leo (nee Liam) does go out to shop for groceries and a few essentials he finds a nearby Aldi, where he might also find paint and brushes on sale to brighten up his room, so at least he creates a warm, bright and pleasant safe refuge for his physical and metal wellbeing. 💝 🤗 💚

Or the two Alpha's of Whiteflame - Tharion & Theo - with help only a Seer like Jack can devine, uncover a secret message in the Runes, that reconstitutes the wolf-boy that was Skarg into a real living breathing wolf-boy, but with a difference. Skarg is effectively re-born in a size similar to that of Jack, and with some 'healer' abilities as well as a Seer component that allows he and Jack to compliment each other and eventually become mates. Thank You @Laura S. Fox for this wonderfully well written fable. 📝 🤗

Much appreciated. Trust me if I ever do publish it, I’m going to rewrite parts of it mainly to make it better in a couple of areas that bug me. Book 2 is currently being worked on and I may have it before the end of the year, trying to keep the pace and flow of the original plus add new concepts is challenging but we will see. Hi Jeff. Hope this finds you well and that Encrypted Book 2 is moving along... with alacrity 😉? Just consider this a polite nudge from the editor in me; only as your comment: "I may have it before the end of the year", doesn't specificy 2026. That last line above surely has put me in some reader's 🎯 BUT (big butt 😉?) readers should not ASSUME* things are what they seem. (At this point some readers may be excused to go and 'g👀gle' alternate definitions of the word*). But I am eagerly awaiting Book 2 arrival of the continued alphabet soup that is this story. BTW 100+ human chimera currently exist in the world, and there is always room for one more - Joshua/Caleb 🤗 -, who by nuture ❤️ and nature, is uniquely filled with empathy and intellect (things most certainly lacking in the current District and surrounding quagmire). IMHO. 🕵️‍♂️

What a chapter @Laura S. Fox ! When did Mistress moon become so human (in appearing to Theo), but also annoyed and a bit petulant in dealing with Theo's thick headedness? “It is not customary for me to be angry, but you are infuriating, Theodore". It is as if she is channeling her inner Yoda? As for Jack's dream of an alive and 30 years older 😳 Theo amongst living children from a future Whiteflame pack ... well consider me gobsmacked. (to quote my late UK Grandpa). Come on next chapterS. (consider that giant 'S' as a subtle nudge 😉.

Hmm, IF they could be "... members of a certain political party..." then most assuredly they wouldn' t be , couldn't be🐰and 🐿️, who are seen as warm and fuzzy and not trying to harm "people". They would be more like the promised "72 vermin 🐀" , which also include 🐍"snakes in the grass" and other creatures up to no good. (But I digress). @Laura S. Fox, surely 🤞🙏 this is a turning point, in a good direction, rather than feeling my spirit crushed like the evil wolf's skull under Theodore's paw. Pweeze

I suspect @Laura S. Fox that our little skeleton Skarg is most certainly a Whiteflame Pack cub who became one of the first victims, but hopefully because his soul lingers inside his bones, when Jack, Vince and Theo win, all those victims will be reconstituted and reborn?

Preston, @quokka so sorry you hear that are "Struggling with life things at the moment... Not Sure if there will be any more after this chapter... Q". As a long-time follower of your writings, I'm aware you previously had "things" that caused you to stop writing; the last time was such that 'we' thought you had set down your 'pen' for the final time, so we were more than pleasantly surprised when Holiday Drama appeared. "Over the moon" was how one fellow editor remarked. My thoughts and 🙏 are with you now. Take good care. 🫂

What could possibly go awry "on a 3 hour tour*" @quokka ? Looks like Myles, Grant, Ashton and Jonah are about to discover their new sailing charter cat yacht, thanks to Grant's honourary 'Uncles' (and Myles' business partners) Alister and Hugh. Along with 'Adelaide' Stew Chad and Chef (boyfriend) Kingsley. Let the adventure begin on Cowell Island (no Simon 😆). * (A reference to theme song from old U.S. comedy show called 'Gilligan's Island' in which 7 people, including the Skipper and First Mate Gilligan, board a small motor yacht for a brief cruise, only to get stranded on a deserted island after the boat is damaged in a storm at sea).