I think this was more than a satisfying response, actually. I think the problem might have been oversharing, sometimes the less shared the better. This time, it lead to speculation, and worries because we tend to imagine the "worst". But in the end I never put into doubt that you take great care into writing this story, nor did I doubt the attention to detail that's already the standard of the story so far would continue as it is. Keep up the amazing job!
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We're about 600,000 words in if the pre-release update is to be believed and we've only just had our first kiss in Chapter 18 right at the end. I get worrying over something you like, but if anyone should get the benefit of the doubt it's this team. Like this thread only exists because the amount of work and attention to detail being put into this has come at the expense of whatever shorthand you'd usually use to get to the sex. I watched someone stream the game thinking the armband and consequence of breaking that promise was going to be sex lmao. It's just not that type of story.
(Holding my tongue a bit about a story that definitely set up those expectations because it does work for that story but it was also undeniably a quick way to escalate things.)