So, been a while. Had trouble figuring out an approach to this introspective transition chapter, and I’m afraid it shows, in the awkward writing and somewhat extraneous digressions into pseudo-worldbuilding. After agonizing over the structure for months, though, I finally decided it was better to post what I had than to scrap it all and start again from scratch. Constructive criticism still welcome! ‹nervous smile›

Schwann turns out to have been something a little more complicated to Alexei than just a tool to be used and discarded. Raven hadn’t wanted to remember at all and reacts badly, but Yuri’s not about to let him get away from the rest of them so easily as that, in the name of the brightest star in the night sky.

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