This is a day or two late, but seeing that it turned out to be almost 10k, I think I bit off more than I could chew.
For context, thats about half of the total 20k word count of the 3 parts, and roughly **two thirds if not half of a novel in length.**
Dear lord, if I could pump out writing like this for my regular non-tf books, I'd be rivaling "Stephen King on large amounts of cocaine and liquor while locked in a Maine cabin" levels of productivity.
Regardless, It's hard to justify writing long looong stories like this when just puff piece caption TF's I post get about 5-10x the attention.
Back to the hermit life for me. But hey, as a teaser for what I'm doing next, I may or may not have gotten an AI to written TF fiction. The future is now, I guess.
Anyway, let me know what you think. Any comments would be much appreciated as my fingers are now bleeding from that 20k monster. Thanks for the read.