And I'm [i]finally[/i] at Part II! 33,793 words, and Our Heroines are about to embark on what I hope will be a high-speed, high-stakes, adrenaline-filled race. A vast new field of possibility has opened, but only Our Heroines and two other groups know what's really there - and none of them have the whole truth, only three different perspectives, conjectures, and outright myths. 

I can't believe I started this story with the image of a fifty-meter monowheel shooting lightning at an airship while they both charged over prairieland towards a distant mountain range. I love everything that's grown out of it, and I'm so happy it took me almost 34,000 words [i]just to get to the lightning-shooting[/i].

What does Part III have in store? Keep listening to me babble and you'll find out!