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Jun 9, 2023Liked by St John Starling

No one except Lord Vane! Oh, the poor man, whatever will he do... I think its quite interesting that Father Ardelian didn't take the chance to leave, even after all that has happened. Also, I love the concept of a "Catholic punishment walk", that phrase made me laugh out loud when I saw it. Thanks for the chapter! It brightened my day :)

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My editor came up with the punishment walk and it made me lose it! Thanks so much.

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Can't believe Silas did an unintentional one hit KO on Father Ardelian's psyche with a mere book cover. Feels like we're mostly past the point of Dracula parallels now. So Lord Vane is losing control and going after people now judging from what Silas said. Looking forward to the next confrontation between Ardelian and Lord Vane.

Interesting format thing is that I don't know for sure how much of this is left, while in a book you always have a sense of how much is left. It adds a lot more tension to the story. And the picture plus comment on it makes me want to crack some sort of blood moon from Zelda joke. 'The gay moon rises, something something, they're coming for you Ardelian.'

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Silas is a nice man who doesn’t deserve to deal with Father Ardelian’s many, many problems.

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Jun 10, 2023Liked by St John Starling

"I had all but forgotten [...] that there was anything to which my heart belonged outside of Whithern Hall." so you admit that your heart also belongs to something IN whithern hall, hmm?

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;)

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just binged the whole mess over to get caught up, absolutely wonderful work my guy. i really wish i could be more coherent and analytical than just going AGAKSHSKHJS!!!!! but it evades me. stay safe in the fire brother

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I can't help but notice there has not been a letter to Father A's sister in quite a while, this is really telling.

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