Word count: 110,810
LBR census: Ladies and gentlemen, THE BLOOD HAS ARRIVED.
Authorial sadism: I’ve been looking forward to writing this bit for four months now. I’m pretty sure that makes me a Bad Person.
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There’s nothing I can say at this point that wouldn’t constitute a spoiler. Except that we’ve hit the fun part.
Fun for me, anyway. My characters might beg to differ.