Nano 36469

Friday was 3195 and today, 2283. Still on par for a finish early next week. Here's a teensy snippet:

I decided to take a chance, for it seemed one had been offered me. "Amuran seems...evil."

She nodded slightly. "Perhaps more than you think."

That flicker of hope died as though a cold wave had squelched it.

Ah, the killing of hope. Such a nasty thing, but so necessary with so much book yet to be written.