Put Up Your Dukes!

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Killer-Kate and Luke Lackland: 50 words gathering in reactions from a fevered sleepless night, before I noticed I'd mislaid my keys and had to drop everything to find them.  Two jobs for me in this new chapter: firstly, looking things around from every aspect, especially those of the people who are Not Important, so that my main characters are striding around amongst things which are really happening.  The Night Without Stars, and what people felt and glimpsed after it, has been a big shock to the system.  Big, and excessively confusing.

Secondly, to pare what is told down to what the Young Duke is truly doing and feeling about it.  If one chapter of this tale is as much his own as he assumes all the rest is - why, this would be the one.

And he is going to find himself a hard and raging opponent, in this deadly earnest bout of shadow-boxing.