Maybe give Talvi time to finish his story, just in case we die.
Noooooooo. Will not happen. I'm not going to be the cause of Spearbreakers not getting updated for a few months. >.> Seriously, I have a lot left to do. Even if I end the story at the end of the Parasol arc (which still leaves Joseph on the loose) you're looking at another 10 chapters or so.
I don't mind reading another 10 chapters, I quite like these kind of stories.
...what about another thirty? :\ Thanks for the encouragement, though.
@Talvieno
If, as I recall, Vanya's journals are told in the style of a noarrator reading a history book, then it won't matter when you finish, the end result is the same. We could conquer Hell now and you could still be writing about Vanya's arrival.
This is true. The narrator wasn't originally a narrator, it was just a piece of text at the beginning of each chapter to allow me to describe the journal. Now that he's a narrator reading Vanya's journals in the future, I can technically end the story whenever I want... but Vanya's story itself can't go much farther than the end of Spearbreakers.
On the plus side, when Vanya gets back to Spearbreakers, she'll be a lot tougher emotionally/mentally than when she left... I imagine she'll want to take part in its defense, and I look forwards to writing about the first dwarf/elf battle. That would produce a lot of internal conflict, I would think... She dislikes her own kind because of the bad name they give her, but at the same time, she'd feel like she was betraying them... But then, she wants to defend Spearbreakers... but then again, she doesn't want to kill anyone. Joseph's doing the same thing with her right now - toying with her mind. I think he might actually derive a perverse sort of pleasure from watching it, as the most use she can actually be to him is a pawn.