bedlam boundary - 24.34
Added 2024-11-02 03:09:54 +0000 UTCChapter creeps through abandoned hospital hallways, peeking into rusty rooms, sniffing out empty beds, heading for the wild party beyond the final doors.
https://katalepsis.net/2024/11/01/bedlam-boundary-24-34/
This week's password is: fracture
Epub version of the chapter is also attached below, as always!
And! We! Are! Back! Thank you all so much for your patience, dear readers; it's been a rough few weeks for me, but things are back to normal now, my writing schedule and the story itself are both firmly back on track, and Heather is ... well, back to her usual tricks, as we are about to see!
As for the upcoming schedule, I had a couple of readers ask if next week is a break week like normal, and I want to make sure I've clarified this - it's not! There will be a chapter next week, and the week after that, at the very least. I'm not sure what I'll do if arc 24 goes beyond 36 chapters; I may take a break week like normal, or I may simply ride the wave to the end.
Speaking of which, yes, we might maybe possibly perhaps be going to 37 chapters! I'm genuinely not sure at this point. I'm no longer in full narrative control of the story right now; Heather herself - and well, everyone else - has wrested it from me, long ago. I'm giving the final part of Book One all the space it needs, and that means as many chapters as required - 37, 38, 40(?!) whatever! Though I still suspect 36 might be the ending. We'll see! Heather's still got a trial ahead of her, deep in the dream.
I do hope you enjoy this one, dear readers! Onward we go, back to the falling walls of Cygnet Asylum.
Comments
All will become clear, soon enough!
Hazel Young
2024-11-02 19:52:43 +0000 UTCNow I'm tempted to do a reread and comb through every chapter until I find it... If only I had the free time to do so. 😪
Kennyevilmonkey
2024-11-02 19:08:21 +0000 UTCA mystery, indeed! However, I promise that all the pieces of this final little puzzle have already been on screen, some of them since the very beginning of the story, and I'm not planning any un-foreshadowed last minute twists. Perhaps the answer is more obvious than Heather thinks, perhaps it's something so massive, looming so large in her life, that she's been ignoring it and bottling it up for a very long time. Or maybe it's Timmy.
Hazel Young
2024-11-02 18:12:28 +0000 UTCOh no! I must have nodded off and taken a nap.
Hazel Young
2024-11-02 18:10:39 +0000 UTCI'm racking my brain trying to think of what this trapped thing is. Is it something from her childhood that she repressed and doesn't want to remember? It's not the pebble. Lonely Heather already found that... Maybe she accidentally brought a classmate with her to Wonderland as a kid and abandoned them, and she doesn't want to remember her first kill? Is the final boss, Timmy?!
Kennyevilmonkey
2024-11-02 05:07:28 +0000 UTCIt's been 84 years...
Taedirk
2024-11-02 03:10:45 +0000 UTC
