Chapter snuggles down deep in a bed of loam, dreaming of moles and earthworms, and gnawing on stray roots.
https://katalepsis.net/2025/03/21/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-2/
This week's password is: lure
An epub version of the chapter is attached below, like always!
Woo! Second chapter of the second book! An auspicious number? Okay, well, perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself by saying that. But all the same, another chapter!!! I hope you enjoy this one too, dear readers; I am having an absolute blast with Maisie's voice, she's already wildly out of control and has firmly ripped the story from my grasp. I hope you enjoy the chapter!
So, as things continue to shape up behind the scenes, now that the girls are on the page and doing the things and rapidly leaving my control, I'm able to offer some tentative predictions about structure - namely, that this arc is likely to be rather long.
How long, exactly? I don't know yet. 15-20 chapters? 60-100k words? I hesitate to put numbers on this, not yet.
I thought this might happen, but I wanted to get a couple of chapters published first and see how things shape up, before I said anything. And this is still tentative, at current. It depends very heavily on Maisie herself (I ... can't stop her, at this point, she's in control now.) She very well may go in a different direction. But it's likely that arcs in Book Two are going to be longer than the average was back in Book One, excluding arc 24 of course, that was an outlier.
Like I said, this isn't confirming anything yet! I'm just peeling back the curtain on a bit of the process, I suppose?
Or ... Maisie's process?
In either case, on with the show! Here we go!