Writing
900 more words on this bit. I feel rusty and weak. There's a novel's worth of history to try to cover in a very short span so people don't have to have read the book to make sense of it.
I'm posting this as part one. Part two will have the scene I actually imagined, but hopefully with enough information to let it make sense. It's always hard to write around what people don't know, or think they know. That includes characters in the story sometimes.