Triumph, me!

Behold, mortals! I have indeed finished the next chapter of Communications, and will be shortly sending it off to be beta'd! Hopefully Summercloud will still be interested after more than half a year ^^a *fails* Sadly, there will be no Heiji punching in this installment after all ;_; I got part way through writing that segment (after the punch, even) and decided it sounded way too much like the first half of the chapter and I was going to scrap it. So scrap it I did. I used that little preview clip from way early on in the year instead (with very minor tweaking). To make up for lack of Heiji-punching, though, there will be smokebomb usage.

In other words (those of Percy Bysshe Shelley, to be exact):
"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
...Yes, I am aware of the irony of my writing that. Hush.

Next chapter will probably be Ai/Shiho-centric, followed by another Heiji chapter, with an appearance by Kazuha because she needs to be in the story more. And also because she can help me advance the plot. After that... I'm not entirely sure. Hopefully I'll figure it out before too long. I can think of at least two more things to do in chapters, but I'll probably need at least another three in addition to those to make things run smoothly. Possibly including one with Akemi.

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Just in case anyone's actually interested for any reason, previous chapters of Communications can be found here (FF.net) or here (memories).

Anyway, should probably get to work on that next one soon, so I can have it done before another six months pass.