This is proving to be a difficult chapter. I know what I need to accomplish with this chapter, but I've been a bit in the dark as to how to do this. I finally realized a character that I will use as a catalyst for certain key events needs to make his first appearance here. The problem is, I'm still up in the air about exactly what this character is and how I should present him.

Hopefully it will come to me. It's been too long a stretch since I finished the previous chapter without any more writing.