User blog comment:The Redundant Button/Misfortune Made Her Sword - Chapter two up!/@comment-5470513-20170815233823/@comment-31705228-20170816020414

Glad you liked it. But yeah, while I don't think of myself as pointlessly killing off characters, I'll admit I did a pretty shite job of carrying over the feeling of a recent death in the group with this particular chapter. My aim, though, is for no useless character deaths, such that each one affects at least one of the main cast in a purposeful way and carries throughout the series. Cyril's does have a point beyond just instilling that intial sense of hard reality, which I hope will be made more clear in later chapters. I promise, they didn't forget about him!

For the last bit, I'm still trying to work out my own sort of style of writing, so things might be a bit wonky here and there until I've managed to get something going for me. Hopefully not too wonky as to leave the realm of nitpicking.