Concordia discors

[Originally, this was to have been yesterday's update, but I was late getting it done. Then I lied to my betas and told them I was posting it this Friday--my life: a web of deceit. This morning I remembered that for the next two days I'll be in an exhaustion-induced fugue state, and then on Saturday I'm off to spend a week with friends, so my chances to post (much less reply to comments) will shrink dramatically after tonight.

So: here it is. To get the intended impact you should time-travel back to yesterday and read it. Or read it on Friday.

Also--and there is no way to phrase this that doesn't make me sound like a giant dweeb, so just try to overlook it--you all know who I am, right? I mean, you know my non-Mina identity? Because it's not meant to be secret or anything; as much as I like it when people stumble across this without any idea where the hell it came from, any of you who want to know are welcome to.]

( 3.5 Mina de Malfois and the Wizard’s Staff (part one) )