Sorry—I've been writing nonstop…

…as you can tell by the word count.

Something odd has happened. Before the book's story really starts,  Bren has gotten into his computer and started reading some notes Geigi gave him and this looks as if it is going to be a prologue. I haven't done a prologue since book i. But this is kind of an interesting take—the whole train of events recapped from the Landing upward, in Geigi's words, with Geigi's behind-the-scenes knowledge of  events from the atevi point of view, interspersed with Bren's as he adds commentary of things he knows that Geigi might not. Sort of the Cliff's Notes version of Foreigner with the things you didn't know tucked into it. Talk about your book starting to talk to you…