Was ambushed by 534 new words tonight. It’s kind of a short retelling of a short story I wrote a while back, which was set in the distant past of the world of the current novel. I started to write this just to remember an idea I had that might help fix that (hopelessly broken) story, but then it morphed into one character telling it to another and analyzing it a bit in light of current events. And that sparked other ideas….