Progress!

I've finished plot point nine :-D (cue insane laughter)

I don't know about polishing it off in three thousand words; I think it's been another 18 pages so far, which is more like five and a half thousand, and we're not actually beyond the "found and rescued" part, which still leaves the "bit hazy" material to cover. In fact we're not even quite on board the seal-hunter yet, since I had the bright idea of cutting short the business of Lancard falling in while transferring between boats by having the Résurgence simply get run down by the oncoming ship :-p

(The irony of that, of course, is that it makes all the foreshadowing about his back injury pretty much unnecessary...)

Still, it seems so strange to be making actual progress through the plot again, instead of frantically floundering about for month after month...