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I normally don’t post when there’s this many comments on a chapter, but I wanted to give my condolences for Sky’s death. I’ve never had a horse, but one of my childhood friends did, and, for her, losing a horse was basically like losing a sibling. Family that has history and gets you in a way no one else does. I hope you are being surrounded by love and you have as much space to grieve as you need.

To be in a love triangle without knowing that you’re in one is tricky! But Lucas is dropping enough hints that it feels like Jubal is actively ignoring the signals. Great story.

I really hope Simon isn’t truly gone. He’s really the only character in all of this that I’m interested in and I’ll be sad if the story becomes focused on Yidian instead.

I’m so relieved that the truth didn’t harm Kyan’s friendship with Max! I’ve been worrying about that for chapters. I love Noah taking the lead to form a kids’ bedtime strike.

Despite the pain surrounding his relationships with Konstantinos and Gideon, Kavan’s primary relational commitment is to his brothers. He found a way to bring them into the vampiric world, and there is no way he would choose to abandon them, if he had a choice. So, he’s going back, as soon as he’s allowed to. I disagree. I think Gideon can rationalize his feelings all he wants, but he needs to be confronted with his actual feelings. It’s in moments like with Mauro, or when Kavan talked about not bonding with each other that he proves that Gideon does actually want Kavan, as much as he’s afraid of that desire. In general, it feels like a lot of my suppositions from the last chapter were in line with the story’s direction. Konstantin is getting bad advice/direction from Katherine. Gideon’s history of abandonment does have him far from being able to accept their bond. They all need to learn how to communicate better. Gideon & Kavan work well when they’re working together, so I’m excited about this next step. Solving a problem to protect their species from detection will take time together and remind them how their skills and perspectives meld to make them both better. If there’s hope for them, it might be in Gideon having the freedom to choose Kavan, instead of just ending up together because they are fated.

I’ve read so many of your stories, but I think that this is the first time I’ve commented on one. What a beautiful, difficult, wonderful piece. His flashback scene is done so well. It’s stressful and the phrasing was percussive and I felt my heart speed up. A real tour de force.

This is a lot of names, places, people and dates for a first chapter. I hope it slows down soon so I can figure out who’s who! It seems like it’ll be an interesting story, once we readers can get a handle on it.

As a child of the 80s, when no fault divorces changed lives in much of North America, I find the realities of a century ago very distressing. How intrusive! Would Lewinson be trying to get the judge to deny the divorce, or to ensure she didn’t get anything from the divorce?

A wonderful ending to a truly enchanting story! These characters have magicked their way into my heart. I hope you have more stories in this world in the future.

Kyan is so good with kid’s emotions, but it turns out he’s not as adept with other adults. The blind spots we can have are interesting.

The rockets are to send supplies to space? Huh. Vert different from the ICBMs I’d been picturing. Now I’m wondering whether there’s a space station above. Such a continually interesting and unexpected story.

Oh Kyan! 💔 If only we could ward off depression by being too busy or having too many people relying on us. Then basically none of us would ever get depressed.

I find it interesting that the way the Lachess corpses were differentiated from human corpses was because they were “without the touches of fur that characterized a human face.” Do they just mean eyelashes & eyebrows (since not all humans grow other facial hair, particularly when young)? Or is this a hint that our human characters might not look like we’d quite expect?

I like this idea that the knack might be able to be developed in people, as opposed to simply an innate binary. Jamie’s mind at work is a beautiful thing.

This is a beautiful story thus far. Hard to read through my tears.