Yes, I could have dragged out this exposition over weeks and weeks of meandering, conversational dialogue. But ... no.
Hello to everyone who came here from Crossoverlord! If you're interested, this little tie-in kicks off back here. It's actually about eight months ago, but who's counting? (Therm's disappearance happened about a year before that, real-time. Frankly, I'm stunned.) And to those of my regular readers who don't follow Crossoverlord, you may be interested to know that Therm gets a cameo here. Or you may not. It made me happy, though.