Interlude 9.c: Faustian Antithesis (Patreon)

So last week was... Yeah. A thing. A frustrating, stressful thing, filled with all sorts of complete nonsense and just... Stuff. Too much stuff. I'm not going to get into it, here.

Anyway! This interlude has been moved around quite a bit since it was first imagined. Originally, I thought it would fit into arc 8. Then, arc 8 expanded, and then arc 9 expanded, and we finally get it now. 

What is this interlude, you ask? Isn't it obvious? It's the Cauldron interlude.

Might be a little rough, might get some minor tweaking, since my editor has been a bit busy this weekend, but it should remain mostly the same even then. For now, enjoy!

Note: I actually wrote half of this on Saturday. That was how wacky my week was.