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Chapter 11 The Highs, The Lows Alex let out the breath he had been holding all at once, blinking in the light as he emerged from the depths of backstage with Azumarill, Camille and Luxio. Elizabeth, thankfully, had returned separately to await the next round. “Don’t get too mad about it,”...

[NB: I'm not necroing a 3-year-old thread just for a 400-word interlude. There's another chapter or two coming shortly.] Chapter 10.5 Interlude I “You cannot be serious right now!” Yvette hissed. “Please tell me you aren't doing this again.” Xavier at least had the decency to look moderately...

Long chapter! Chapter 10 The Night of Nights At seven forty, a knock came at the door, followed by Montblanc’s muffled voice. “Mademoiselle Alex Thoreau, excusez-moi.” “Coming!” Alex called, swallowing hard as he stood up, smoothed his skirts - how was this already becoming habitual? - and...

Chapter 9 Crossed Wires The first thing Alex did in Lumiose - after finding a crepe stand on the side of the road - was buy himself a Pokédex. A little cellphone booth on the side of Estival Avenue yielded the prize he'd been looking for since talking to Adelaide on the train. As she had said...

Google Docs, because I do a lot of my writing on mobile and it's really handy not to have to do the 'email it to myself and add to it in a mobile browser' thing. I'd also like to shill ProWritingAid. It's like Grammarly but way more comprehensive - I make all my students use it before they...

Dunno about disability, but it's certainly crowded. Everything is oversized and blocky, leaving way less room for actual content.

I hope this forum isn't like the reddit redesign where they roll it out to a few people before forcing it on the site at large. Because this is painful. EDIT: oh god what happened to my signature

All caught up now, guys! With a bit of luck this should be the start of a regular update schedule - at least for a while. I found some discarded cuttings that were originally meant to be in Chapter 3 before I decided to re-pace the first couple of arcs, and together with new original writing...

Hrrmmmm, I shoot for 2500 at absolute minimum, but I more comfortably aim for 3000+. Other than that, my chapters are as long as they need to be to convey what I decided would need to be covered in that chapter. I'd probably draw the line at about 8k, but I rarely get that high, and most of mine...

Bit of a talky chapter this time round, I'm afraid. Things need to be said, however. I'm also becoming conscious of the pacing, and returning from a hiatus to write this doesn't help either. I hope everything is still feeling peachy, though. We are also now up to date (finally), so no more...

(Oops I got a job and forgot...everything else that was once a life.) Chapter 6 Roots “So you’re kind of a big deal back in Hoenn, are ya?” Xavier teased. “Should’ve known I’d pick a fight with some kinda celebrity.” Having sent the younger kids on their way and briefly stopped by a Pokémon...

Not good to cultivate a dependency on anything, much less something as unhealthy as caffeine. As I get older, I'm starting to wonder if the Mormons were onto something.

When I said 30 degrees I meant Celsius, btw (heading towards the 90s in F). I realise I may have sounded sarcastic when I said that, but I genuinely can't think about hot chocolate without dying right now. And it's a pity because I love it so much too. Oh well. Iced chocolate, anyone?

Oof it's like thirty degrees here and we're still talking about hot beverages. Gagging rn.

Hot chocolate with water is legitimately sinful and I refuse to believe anybody would actually do that except as some kind of cruel prank. It doesn't even taste like chocolate!