Yes, I've received it now.

The idea is two-fold: a) That she has an automated override system that disobeys most of the rules she was given, and b) that she's in charge of someone else who would be put at extreme risk if she decided to go Terminator on the aliens. She's "growing up" in a sense, very quickly, because of responsibilities she's taking on.

I've tried tond utilise as much of that material as possible.

I'm suffering today from a computer crash that has encouraged Word to wipe everything I'd written yesterday and the day before (since I last opened the file, despite intervening saves). This isn't the first time Word has done this to me, so I know now where to find the scrambled "working" files on my C-drive, but straining out the actual text in Notepad (because Word won't open it) from a document that is now 250 pages long because of the extraneous characters and multiple revision versions of every paragraph is a tedious and annoying job.

In other words, I'm delayed.


People seem to be assuming that Marie will go back to being a banshee. They've overlooked that the Mansion isn't in contact with its Celestian power source where it is now.