This story has been on my mind a lot the past week. It sparked that creative energy in me that I used to be brimming with when I was younger. I wrote up what the very end of chapter 18 might look like from Asterion's perspective. It's my first time writing for fun in a very long time, but I'm pretty happy with how it came out: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeLtl25C0ae80MukPp-H_ILXd0mPE_8ylpL0xcip9lo/...