This really should have been the start of another chapter, but I kind of spaced that part. I'll fix it in the next update.
I don't know about you guys, but I have enough difficulty keeping track of the threads (or strings) of my own story that I felt it was a good time to pause and take stock. Someday I'll write a simple story that follows a straight path. Something sweet and lovable. A child and his dog, maybe. They're looking for their mother's missing hairbrush in the yard. Only the dog starts digging, and the ground gives way, and suddenly they find a tunnel system that leads them into the globe-spanning labyrinth of an immortal and tormented Daedalus who has been digging for centuries in order to find the last line of the final song of Orpheus that will let him undo the fate of his beloved son Icarus, yet in his digging he has awakened an ancient colony of sleeping insectoid beings that have an inscrutable agenda of their own to... goddamn it! You see what happens?
My wife writes haiku. A handful of evocative words, that's it. Blows my mind.
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"All of the other travelers" is only 2 and could be "both". Although I had to look carefully to see that.
But how do we know that Jinevra and Bertrand want the other travelers trapped and that this wasn't just a for-the-moment measure?
As a separate question, how will they find Sharon? Do they keep regular tabs on the people they've trapped and will check out the last once they've seen that Sharon's gotten one of the others?
Danny Mah made it sound like Jinevra is a willing and active participant in the harp scheme just as much as Bella. Nobody knew how long they'd be stuck in magic world due the fractured nature of the place, but really if not for Sax the harp would have been played by now and everyone would already be reunited.
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