Managed to figure out the block I had in SOTM to make that time jump smoothly.  Wrote another thousand words or so of the transition, and have the next couple of scenes ( as well as the chapter closer ) firmly set in my head.

One thing that’s been bothering me is that things are happening too much back-to-back, which felt a little unnatural.  You pretty much saw the start and end of every day since Ch. 01.  I’m at a point now where Zoraster’s schemes are at a simmer point, awaiting the right time, so that gives me the ability to pass some time and even things out a bit.

It also give me the time to make some of the more complicated preprations that Danica and the girls need to get down to in order to stand against what is to come.  Things like this don’t happen overnight, no matter how good Danica, Darkni, and everybody else is.

So, I’m going to hit that final sweep of Secret now, and get it off to MistressLynn for an impression read.  She did this for me on last year’s entry, and the insight was remarkable.  It made the story much tighter and much better than it would have been by orders of magnitude.