Chapter vaults the fallen trees, scurrying through barbed undergrowth, sniffing out a trail of knives on the forest floor.
https://katalepsis.net/2025/04/25/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-6/
This week's password is: deferral
As always, an epub version of the chapter is linked down below!
We're really getting stuck into the arc now! There's more unfolding here quicker than I expected; Maisie isn't exactly hurrying things along, so to speak, but she's drawing a lot more heat than I had originally figured she would (both textually and meta-textually! Figure that one out, if you can, because I can't). But! Behind the scenes, the arc is still shaping up wonderfully, and I could not be happier with how this first arc of Book Two is going so far. I'm still amazed how Maisie has landed so well on the page. And thank you all! I couldn't do any of this without all of you, the patrons; you make all of this possible, every week! Thank you!
And I hope you enjoy this chapter just as much as I enjoyed writing it! Over to Maisie! Don't let her bite.
And I also have another little treat before we go. I have yet more fanart from the discord - well, fan ... sculpture? I'm not even sure what to call this, it's so unique and different. I am delighted to share with you all, this fan interpretation of Maisie's kitchen knife, wrought from, well, a real knife. (That's four separate pictures, just to be clear! Four different angles of the finished artifact.) (This rather unique fanwork was made by The Vixen Viscountess!) Thank you so much, this is an incredible thing to see out there in reality!
