Both Judith falling in spite of herself, and the passage of (some unspecified amount of) time before the ending. Even if in "story time" it's not a quick turnaround, though, the reader has to make that jump in a short space of ... I dunno what to call it, "text time," I guess. Just part of the overall compressed feeling of the story, which I'm sure would be more successful with a bit more space to stretch in.

persimmon and I will work something out. I think hosting a WFC during NaNoWriMo is not only folly, but we need some time for both writers and readers/voters to bounce back from this one before taking the plunge again. So "after November" sounds fair.

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