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Yeah, I knew this would be a big one, I really wanted to work on characterization with it. I'll see what I can trim, though this draft does have a lot of fat trimmed from the first draft already.

As far as the insects, they are supposed to be aliens, though I figured people at the time would believe them to be supernatural beings. This is meant to be a direct but stand-alone tie-in to a story I wrote in November, where a lot more focus is spent on the actual aliens (the bronze palace is their ship).

And thanks for pointing out the bit about the word "maroon." I was originally going to go back and make the dialogue feel more "medieval", but ultimately I decided not to, as I think it would have made it a bit more difficult for the reader to become invested in the characters. Still, though, i don't want to use obviously modern words, either