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Call me crazy, call me blind as a bat, call me insane and a bad judge of merit, but I really think this is a good story. I've been trying to work backwards on the BN stuff, and although all I've got so far is 220 pages of writing and a premise that's twice as long as it should be, I already had high personal and public stakes in there without even realizing, and although I'm terrified that the first section is just filler until we get to the main plot, it meshes rather well and I'm having trouble seeing how I could change it or make it quicker, and although I've only had a couple of times where I was enjoying writing so much that it felt like I was soaring, I'm to the point where all of the plot to come is looking really fun and enticing, and I can't wait to get there, but it doesn't really matter because the part that I'm at is just as fun and enticing. It's good stuff, and I've not felt this way about anything I've written so far, with the possible exception of Child of Magic, but that doesn't count because I had an incredible amount of help from Holly and the other BN students in making it good. This was all on my own, off the top of my head, pouring out of my fingers as I fought to make my word counts every day. There was no planning, it was all spontaneous. And the only thing I can really think of that I should try to improve is the characters and their motivations and secrets and stuff. But DAMN, I'm loving this! I've never had this confident, this-really-is-good feeling before. And in the middle, to boot. Middles are usually the hardest part for me.

And I've come up with a title I really like, too. Ral's Story was flushed down the toilet the moment Blade made it clear in no uncertain terms that she liked her name and had no intention of changing it. The new title is Danger's Kiss, which I like a lot. Short, snappy, and intriguing. And it fits.