I'm going with [i]The Bluebird of Uotsuri-shima[/i]. Because the island of Uotsuri-shima is important (like, WWIII-level important), and one of the main characters is a blue alien (shut up I was more creative with how that species expresses emotion I swear) whom has hollow bones for a damn good reason. Originally, it was going to be called [i]On Fridays We Eat Curry[/i], and be about the crew of a Japanese destroyer during a hypothetical war with China. But then I remembered the whole "Dude in Navy finds injured alien" story I came up with a year ago. So now I have something that reads like I'm soapboxing about the Syrian Refugee Crisis, while also kinda being an interspecies romance, while ALSO being about a brewing war in the Pacific.

So that's fun.

In other news, 38,547 words today! Woo! Now I've finally hit the point where I have to start skipping bits because I don't know what to do with them.