Produced 500 words last night. Discovered, somewhat to my surprise, that this particular chapter was a short one as opposed to an exceptionally long one, and the events I had planned for the latter pages instead want their own chapter. I was also startled to see Jachym stand up to Gauthier in wholly unexpected fashion. That certainly wasn't in my mental outline! I think something changed in Jachym at the end of the previous chapter--he may be burdened by guilt and consumed with anger, but he's no longer the passive victim he'd been before--which I'd thought he'd continue to be for quite a ways longer. Fascinating.

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