It's taken too fucking long because I've had a lot going on, but I finally have a draft of the denouement ready.

The draft is also too fucking long, though I'm not sure if I'll shorten it at all or if so by how much. It feels a bit like I spent too long wandering around at a party saying goodbye to everyone before heading out, which will fit when you actually read it. But I dunno if it's a good thing or not. I'm just happy to have the thing written down.

I'm gonna let it sit a bit while I work on something else briefly, and then I'll give it an edit pass and a polish and post it. After a literal decade of poking at it on and off, it'll be nice to be done with it.