I think I just wrote something that's going to necessitate another change _(┐「ε:)_

On the list of problems to have, this is one of the better ones. Kind of. I mean, I wrote two characters interacting in a ch13 scene a waaaaaays back, but now that I've futzed with the immediate situation in ch10a now the characters are, like. Interacting earlier in a different way? And it's not really where I intended the interaction to go, but that's just kind of where the scene "carried" me, and now it's like "Well fuck, this changes the whole dynamic between them in that later chapter that I've already written pages of and really enjoy re-reading."

Also this whole rewrite was supposed to make this chapter more fun, but. I am. Or the story is. Apparently not in a mood for fun and levity?

At the very least it isn't as heavy-handed as it previously was, so I guess that still counts as a victory. We'll see which interaction survives.