Author's notes:

1. Sorry.

2. Happy Thanksgiving. I'm grateful for you, my readers.

3. Tobias will be published by the end of the day Sunday (Pacific time), probably along with a second very short interlude.

4. Comment "A" if you have a strong preference for receiving updates as they occur, regardless of whether there will be long delays between them. Comment "B" if you have a strong preference that I wait until I've written a batch of chapters which I can then publish in series, even if this means waiting (much) longer for the first of those chapters to appear.

5. Sorry.

Interlude

‹I hereby formally accuse you of orchestrating all of the setbacks and difficulties that have plagued, crippled, and delayed the invasion of Earth and the assimilation of the human species. I denounce you as a traitor, and petition this council to remove you from your position as Visser One, to quarantine your coalescion, and to destroy your host. As evidence for this accusation, I present to this council—look! Observe how her host responds! See how her control is shaken! This is one of the leaders of the human resistance, a morph-capable human and the biological offspring of the Visser's own host body. Does any Yeerk present need further evidence that this entire farce has been contrived since the very beginning?›