Hello Dear Readers!

As we begin Season 5, here is the link to the Fear and Love Soundtrack, Volume 3, because in my fantasies you all listen to the corresponding song from my playlist before you start reading a new episode so you have the 'feel' of where I'm going.

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I'd have given you a hyperlink - but FF.N is not easy to deal with in that regard.

Now, a posting update.

I currently have 14 of the next 15 episodes completed. With the three Dex interlude episodes I just posted, that makes 17 of 18 episodes I've written since February. And I've hit another wall. Since I've become obsessed with turning my years worth of notes into the rest of this story - come hell, global pandemic, two lost jobs, or high water - I've decided that I will post Season 5 on the regular Saturday Schedule. That will take us to December 5th. Then, I'm going to take a posting break for the holidays. You guys could probably use it as much as I can, and the new job is brutal at 'EoQ' (end of Quarter… I'm dreading the big PO push again during the last two weeks of December). Then, I'll do a big recap on New Year's Day (because - spoiler alert! - shit that happened in the first few seasons will matter later), and then post Season 6 on the regular Saturday schedule. That will take us to the end of February and by then I will have turned the notes for Seasons 7 and 8 into something worth reading.

I hope!

Season 5 starts Saturday - picking up a few weeks after Tahiri and Cem's heart to heart on Csilla.

As always - a owe a huge, massive thanks to Beta Boy. I couldn't have gotten through this year without him, and you guys would have been bogged down in bad punctuation and typos if not for him!

PP