This one is about the pressure of the cliffhanger, and having to answer it fairly quickly -- which, of course, because we're in That Portion Of The Story, leads directly into another moment of potential suspense. Not as bad as the last, IMO, but -- there's still a question of 'where do we go from here?' Especially since we haven't been in Cerea's POV for a little while, and what she thinks of all this is somewhat important.
Except, of course, to herself. She does have an occasional tendency to disregard her own opinions.
7300 words on this one, and I'm uncertain as to whether I should let our centaur close out the month (and potentially open November with Glimmer). There's a lot left to resolve, some of that has to be done before we even put her out the door, and -- 'out the door' constitutes another sort of cliffhanger.
Which would be cruel.
...so we'll probably do that.
Y'did see whose account this was on the way in, right?