Chapter 4 is now available for your reading pleasure.

[Bob Schroeck]

Oh, I figured out what had happened with that search. I had "Match Case" toggled on for a special search I'd made, and forgot to untoggle it -- and then searched on "shanahan", all lower case.

Deploy is continuing, although we're almost done.

and the ritual had effect before cause. That's a pretty neat idea. I'm sure that Her Nibettes is responsible for this and not the song power. Magic should feel magical, and that certainly did.

Well, if you're going to call everyone together, you might as well make sure they all show up at the same time no matter how far away they are. If Venus had been in England still, she would have heard the call even earlier -- at least enough time to book and take a flight back to Japan.

Oh, damn. I should have done that. I have enough flexibility in the Sailor V timeline vis-a-vis Sailor Moon to have gotten away with it.