New chapter post.

The Tiger is Out: Chapter 54 - Lady of the Orisons

He couldn’t always follow what she was saying, if she was trying to tell him something important or if she was relaying a prophecy of the past or a memory of the future, and he fell back to his training as an EMT more than as a Watcher: keep her talking, keep her steady. Guide her back towards the world from wherever she was in her head, being gentle about it, don’t yank or jerk or pull her along. Take her by the hand and show her the way one step at a time.

And keep her talking, because he didn’t know if he’d ever get a chance to talk to her again.

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Writing Drusilla not as a villain, not even as an antagonist, but as someone with her own distinctive motivations only she’s fully aware of that might or might not align with those of the other characters around her, means it’s not always clear for them why she’s shown up or what it is she wants to do. It brings a lovely kind of tension to the story that I’ve always found valuable. And fun.

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In setting things up for the new job that's starting sometime in January and might be ending as early as April, I arranged for part of the authentication to involve my landline rather than download another app. It meant I picked up the phone when it rang, and it also meant that when the person on the other end said they were calling from the Medicare help line, I blurted out, "What the hell?"

Never has a spam caller hung up on me faster.