Big Wheels Turning

After losing some time to work and other real-life related projects, things are once again humming on Book 09. This is going so much more smoothly than Book 08. Book 08 involved a whole lot of rip-it-up, start-again, but Book 09 is just so straightforward:

1. Here's the task.
2. Here's how they carry out the task.
3. Here's a complication.
4. Here's how they deal with the complication.

One thing that has shifted is I originally thought Book 09 was going to be a Trajan Lear book, with him as the major focus of one of the story-lines. But poor Trajan is stranded in a sandstorm, and the one calling the shots is Anaconda Taurus-Rook. Now, she is the central character of the main storyline. Good for her.