Chapter 20: Wanderer's Mission was posted today in Tapestry of Evil. Go and read it.

Okay. Fine. I'll give you a summery if you want:

In this chapter, after escaping the eruption mountain, Nastan decides that now would be the perfect moment to attempt to kill Barilo, but is stopped by Wanderer, who somehow ends up in his mind as a result. And it is here that she discovers exactly what her mission is in Wyoko and what she needs to do to accomplish it.

Now will you go read it? Pretty please ? (Also, three more chapters and the epilogue to go before the grand finale!)

And as for AUA, I think once I'm finished with my NaNoWriMo novel I'll go ahead and rewrite it for the third time. Whenever I try to edit it, it just seems truly terrible and nothing seems to make much sense anymore. I'm going to have to cut out some characters or downplay the importance of others, start the story differently, maybe choose a different viewpoint character to guide the beginning, allow the characters to move the plot in whatever direction they want to, stuff like that. My writing style tends to be that I allow the characters to be in charge of the plotting while I just write it down, so I feel that my plot for AUA was too mechnical and forced than organic and natural, which is something that disappoints me greatly. So even when I do finish posting ToE it will likely be sometime in early to mid 2010 that you, the readers, will be seeing AUA up.

I'm taking it easy, though, since I really have no specifc deadline, as this is just fanfiction, after all. I have no publisher whose demanding that I write this NOW or else he won't pay me. However, I will try to get it up as soon as I can without rushing for the benefit of my readers who've stuck with me since The Tales of Shika Nui (if any have, that is). I know that I definitely want to reach the end of the Toa Shika's journey, which I hope will be even more dramatic and exciting than the ending of ToE even.

-TNTOS-