Fic progress

And... we've finally reached Plot Point Fifteen proper, with the arrival at the hut!

Switched back to Raoul's point of view; after all my worries about whether it made any sense to switch back to Christine at all, I've done about 20,000 words from her viewpoint over the various chapters since the arrival in Paris, i.e. a large chunk of this notebook. ( snip notebook issues )

Now I just need to do justice to this scene, which is supposed to be one of the pivotal points of the whole book...

Having already injured Raoul's arm, I wonder if I ought to be injuring Erik's leg instead? It would pin him down to the hut more effectively; the main reason for mentioning the arm in the summary is to give an explanation for his fainting when Raoul takes hold of him, which would naturally be by the upper body. Raoul isn't very likely to touch his legs.

I also note that in the story as eventually written, Raoul has actually encountered the 'vicious weighted catgut' before, having been attacked by it himself when Erik climbs into his bedroom! Although he never actually saw anything of the weapon, only its end results :-p