And A Dagger's Width is done. Technically, it came out at novelette length, by the Hugo category definitions. A little over 9000 words at the moment. It turned out that there were things I needed to learn in the Open Wounds series.

A bit about how Megan found her own path through the world, after she and Tony D'ags had their first pass at working together. How the Brotherhood actually deals with renegades wizards; practically, as it turns out, at least at this particular time in history, not dogmatically.

More immediately, Megan discovered that there are monsters in this world. And that the self-created ones, the monsters that come crawling out of our own desires, consume us piecewise, tearing us apart to get to the outside world.