I'm closing on on 32,000 words, after a brief stint to write about 7000 words of "a different thing" while I let some unresolved outline and motivation points percolate. My brain eventually spit out what I'm hoping will be a fairly elegant framework for "why did this character do this thing," and flesh out the conspiracy-thriller theme in this weird superhuman story.

I like this story, and I really like the two main characters. I'm real sad one of them has to die.