The plotting and pondering continues, as the world (real and fictional) changes from what it was into what it will be. How things will play out in the (near) future is yet to be determined; needless to say it’s going to be interesting (if not frustrating) from here on out. Making sense of the sequence of events and the character choices made through the narrative has become a challenge. Sorting through the myriad of character and narrative exposition and their possible connections, both overt and covert, almost requires flow charts and spreadsheets. Admittedly, the series saga has grown exponentially in a relative short amount of time, with interwoven, generational stories. Actions taken (or not taken) in the past / present have potential consequences in the future (after much internal deliberation, and mostly to save what little literary sanity I have left, time travel has been removed from the grand narrative…