Excellent progress! I'm so glad you've advanced the plot this far. I was beginning to wonder just how long we'd be stuck in Stark Towers!!
;)

I enjoyed the installment.

Yipee! I'm thrilled you posted and thrilled with the chapter. I'm even thrilled with the cliffhanger. :) And I'll be even more thrilled when there's more.

I just gotta say, you consistently do a very good job of making personalities come across without actually talking about them. I feel like I get a really good sense of who the characters are and what's driving them, yet you never belabor the point.

And now, vorwaerts! (Onward!)