Just an update.
I started on Sentient: Evolution, just have a little over two thousand words down so far, but I've got a fair idea of how it's going to go.
The book is jumping quite a bit into the future, Aide is really the only old character still around. (Since that's really who the book is about.)
It's the only way it will work, since I painted myself in an HEA corner at the end of book one.
Anyway, I'm aiming for sometime this month, probably closer to the end of it, before I'm finished.