So What If the Sky's on Fire?

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Killer-Kate and Luke Lackland: 270 words.  The Widow cites evidence that the naughty rural guerillas have inadvertently taken bolt-cutters to the Great Chain of Being.  Kate's inner five-year-old - who has ever slept more lightly than most people's - is guiltily apprehensive that she might be right.  But the old wolf of sixty winters can only press on, and abide by these new hazards whichever way they fall.

For Katherine the Golden in her last trial, it could never be any other way than this.

Fiat justitia ruat caelum.