And Furthermore

I notice how I am lately complaining that my heroine manquée and protagonist, Golden Kate Alland, burns me when I write her. Does this mean she has successfully... "Searched for the Nero Inside Herself"?

Ahem.

400 words: a false calm, a true kindness, a touching of hands in the cold and the dark.

Also, I am being persecuted with Kateverse folk songs again.  And this chapter has calved.  I'm going to have to get my skates on if I want to finish my arc before the summer holidays.