There's a lot I'm not comfoetable with in the last three chapters and I want to think for a while before I put it in words. Some of it is continuity. Some of it is letting Alda dominate the story for several chapters. Some of it is falling outside the foreshadow.
So I'm going to mull it for a day or two. You'll see me doing other things. Don't worry; I haven't forgotten you.