Second update: Anchor Foal (Patreon)

When you have the new art, there's an obligation to show it off.  So two updates for this month, and I'm considering whether I should make it three.  There's a very remote chance at four, but...  well, most of you saw what happened recently when Fleur was thinking about going to four.  It's a numerical subject which has to be approached with caution.

Just over 6000 on the word count for this one, and that's something I didn't know was going to happen.  Or rather, I thought it would come in around the 5-7k level -- but I also thought we'd be in a different part of this mini-arc when the natural chapter break hit.  As it turned out, our one-scene guest star demanded her share of time.  And then some.

You give a character a presence, and the need to take up some extra part of the stage just comes with it...

...don't tell her that she has something in common with Blueblood.

Just...  don't.