Damn! I had an idea for good ol’ Nyarl… alas.

Regardless, excellent work (that I still can’t rate).

By the way, Howie, I’m glad to see the Cthulhu twist brought you out of hiding… or, you know, NaNoWriMo stuff. How goes it?

NaNoWriMo goes reasonably well, thanks for asking. I’m a few hundred words behind, but nothing that can’t be caught up during Thanksgiving.

One other note about N.’s appearance here: it is possible that N. will have/will have had an encounter with Simon before… there is a story about a young wizard and an evil library out there in ficlet-land that I hope to come back to after NaNoWriMo ends… mwah-ha-ha…. (Actually, I’m not promising anything other than my returning to that story—when I get back to it, I don’t know where it will go; but N.’s appearance there has been at the back of my mind, so….)

I’m a little confused.