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you're welcome :) and no rush, you're not the one a week behind :P

So, I was for a while considering calling this a prologue. From the next chapter the POV becomes limited to Patrick. Sometimes it's still a little omniscient sounding eg "If ...

Hey, Pomp, thank you so much for review! I think the beginning of this chapter is one of those cases where I'm just way more into it than someone reading ...

Ohhh okay. Would peace talks be too strong?

sigh, none of this was really meant to be a secret. it's one of those things where i've done worldbuilding and forget to explain it. basically the town is a ...

Ahhh thank you for the review! You might be right about leading with the animals. Was just my way of sort of like, setting a suspenseful mood because it was ...

you're welcome :D

Huh, interesting, Pan seemed to think this clarified the relationship more - that Daena is rather spoiled and Janet's had to be the one to step up, and enjoyed that ...

Maybe like a lot of hesitation or confused, pained looks? Something to show that he%u2019s stuck between different courses of action perhaps

fair enough xD

Thanks Pan! I'm really glad you enjoyed it :D Dialogue stuff entirely makes sense, and the world-building stuff too... Actually I might as well admit that I was at 967 ...

Thanks so much Mess! I was really worried people were going to be bored by this chapter so I%u2019m glad you thought it was a decent amount of content :) ...

Ahhhh I see. I don%u2019t think it would be too jarring to just have ,her uncle, inserted somewhere

I%u2019m glad :)

Thanks for your review Stella! Physical description is something I could definitely do more of and I%u2019ll make sure to do some worldbuilding in the next chapter. Should be lots ...