Yes, Virginia, this is a trilogy

I'll have a chance to catch up on individual comments shortly, I hope, but really quick here: Thank you so much to everyone who's taken the time to comment, thank you so much to everyone who's been so wonderfully encouraging about my writing, I'm so glad people enjoyed the ending, sorry it came unexpectedly (I can't write more than about 15 chapters per plot without the plot getting entirely too complicated to wrap up EVER), and yes, I'm already working on a third story in the Slave Breakers series. :) I'm not making any promises about when it'll start going up regularly-- I haven't written the last chapter yet, and I like to have done that, just as a failsafe-- but here is a bit of the very beginning as a teaser, 800 words or so. Everything subject to change until the first chapter officially goes up.

( Three years later )