Fic progress

*Finally* finished what is probably Chapter 2 of the current story, after page after page of struggle and crossings-out. This scene has ended up by occupying almost the entirety of the 'new' notebook -- so much for trying to avoid splitting 'a relatively short fic' across multiple notebooks! However, I still have eighteen or so pages left, which might take me through to the end of the scene with Valentine, on the assumption that it is likely to contain a good deal fewer snippets of backstory as I have pretty much put them all in already :-p

The candle flames swam oddly for an instant, and de Brencourt put out a blind hand as if in search of support. Took a deep breath, and went through the door to face his own private Calvary... or perhaps Elysium. If ever he had known the difference, it seemed to him in that moment no longer possible to distinguish between them.