Third update: Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl (Patreon)

Just over 8000 words in this chapter for what's turning into Cerea Month, and I feel like the majority of them are nauseating.  (Insert your own 'Estee's writing' joke here.)  There are some characters whose perspective I don't care to dip into for long.  

This is an extended scene which had to be separated from the previous chapter.  I had to end on Cerea leaving the party:  swinging directly into this without benefit of chapter break might have qualified for Too Much To Deal With At Once.  So this is the chapter when something begins to surge from background to fore and in doing so, begins to set off the next phase of the story.

However, it doesn't set off the events of the next chapter.

The next chapter is when things really go wrong.