Another week of progress

More than 12,000 words went into Book III this week, with some days being extremely difficult (the kind where you hit "word count" every half hour and groan at the result...and are up until almost midnight crunching out the last few words of the required count.)  Other days started slow but speeded up, and one was a pleasant gallop over smooth ground (that was Monday.  Uncharacteristic, as Mondays are often difficult.)

One of the slogging through hot loose sand in the desert days ended up...