Wreening the Witcher (Watching the show while reading the book at the same time. I mean, not SAME same time, just, these days.) Not an ideal headspace for the "Endgame" chapter, the most depressing and destructive of all short stories in Goose, and the closest to catharsis as the book gets, but it is not far off. I don't yet have the message for it, just the meat of the story. I suppose it is best to abandon Kay's cynical optimistic attitude for the thoroughly defeated episode, especially since if she was the only idealist left, her demise would be too obvious. Perhaps that is what the story needs. The thorough defeat of optimism and light. Will be a little harder to catch a proper note for the epilogue afterward. There are four corners of the story, each still needs the dialogue, but the structure is set: the dinner party which the Goose and Kay go to, just before she figures out the riddle script; the event where Goose deals with people who try to hurt a kid of one of his writers' and Kay sends him walking home though starless; the birth of his first oneiros son which goes terribly wrong, and finally, Goose's mental breakdown in which he finally transforms into the nightmare he's been all along and Kay agrees to have sex with him while he tears her to pieces. The trick is to make it really, really dark. As dark as the scene in the beginning in the garden. Exactly as dark. It's supposed to demonstrate that the worst nightmare he can lock her in is the stage in which Kay operates the best and prove to him that when the time comes for him to lose it completely and sink to the bottom, she will be there waiting.