Great progress today. One of my characters is surprising me and adding a dimension to the ending -- I think it's good, you'll all be the judge of that. If the pace keeps up I might have time to do a LITTLE cleanup...... but either way I think I'm gonna have a laundry-list of 'did this aspect work' questions for anyone with the patience to read the whole thing. Which I imagine is going to be a small number..... it's not exactly fireworks right off the bat. Meh. Anyway I feel good about it right now.