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Mandates and Kha--

Kha leaves the letter and leaves the Guild.  He stops for provisions--is that when he encounters Karl and Karl's account of the Fateful Events?  Could you use that as your starting point for Mandates, with Kha's letter and a sentence or two of dialogue as a prologue?  It would fill in detail not in the other stories, and Kha could spend some time giving Airen a more recent history

And what of Marion and her Seeing?  Hmmityy hmmityy hmmityy.

Took Wednesday off.  Will get back to work wjrn I caugjt up om sleep.

Got maybe half of one-and-two typed up, with the first edit-for-composition done in process.  I'm near 1,800 words.
There's a LOT of description.  Tolkien could manage it.  I don't know if I can.  You'll tell me.

It will probably depend on the weather and her desperation.  By subway: F train at East Broadway and Rutgers Street (will be PACKED during morning rush) to West 4th, up two flights of stairs, A train to the 14th St. station at 8th Avenue.  She could also get the F further north at Delancey (more people off the train) or pick up the M at Essex (a block or so from the Delancey St. station) and take that to West 4th Street.  Again, two flights up to the A train.

Once you're in the system, transfers are free so there's no point in getting off until you get to the optimal station.

The big problem is that during the morning rush any train she gets near there will have just entered Manhattan, and the windows will be bulging with commuters.  She'll be lucky if four or five of the thousand or so people on the train get off.  (You have GOT to ride the subways into Manhattan during the rush if you're going to be in town.)

If she's willing to walk south into the financial district, she could pick up the A at Fulton Street.  She'll have to fight the crowds getting off, but those stations have just been rebuilt and will have more room for her to get in.  (Subway practical etiquette: People waiting to get on stand to the side of the doors.  People getting off walk out the center of the doors.  Of course, if there are a lot of people getting off, they'll fill the doorway.  As the stream tapers off, the people waiting to get on push in from the sides.  It's a conflict that works.)

She could also pick up the 2 or 3 at one of the other (connected) Fulton Street stations and take it up to 14th street and Seventh Avenue.  That's the SECOND station in Manhattan on that line, so a few more people may have left.  That station also has been rehabbed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_Center ; note that this just finished, so if your story is set ten years ago, all these stations would be a mess to get into during the rush) so it shouldn't be too hard to get to the trains.   But it's IRT, so the cars are narrower and the platforms will still be narrower.  (It was quite an achievement to shoehorn the tracks and stations into the financial district.)

Hope this helps.

Edit: Also http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Station:_ … sit_Center

A couple additional thoughts.

If you want to be truly sadistic, there is a pair of linked transfer stations in Brooklyn separated by about 80 vertical feet of stairs.  (Correction on this item!)

On street naming and grids: Manhattan has an East 8th Street and a West 8th Street, as well as an Eighth Avenue.

Brooklyn has 8th Street, East 8th Street, West 8th Street, North 8th Street, South 8th Street, Bay 8th Street, Brighton 8th Street, Flatlands 8th Street and Paerdegat 8th Street.  (Did I miss any?)  Also 8th Avenue.

Queens has two different 1st Streets -- at opposite corners of the borough.   

Probably more info than you can use.  For more more info than you can use, try forgotten-ny.com .  The big treasures are in the grey sidebar way down on the LHS.  Happy trials [sic].

The subway is almost always quicker, but it's not cheap (even though bridge tolls subsidize it).  Fares are convoluted;  check WikiP.  Use the Transit setting on Google Maps to see the routes/services.  (WikiP for the distinction.)

What about a motel across the Hudson within reach of a PATH station?  If you're going to be in lower midtown, not too far east (Madison/40s is pushing it in summer or deep winter) the PATH might bring you close enough w/out an added subway fare.

So lucky I should be!

A quick status note on the part I'm writing right now:

I sat down with my notebooks sixteen hours ago.  The first four I spent on other things.  The next four I spent mixing other stuff with this material.  It took two more to get fully immersed in it.

And then the story began to flow.  Unfortunately, I'm logorrheaic and I'll have to trim it once it's typed up.  But that won't be so hard.  Right now the hard part is keeping it from all tumbling out, out of order; keeping myself in the same story moment as my pen.  I stop to make notes for later parts and notes about things to fix in previous parts.  I stop to check my shorthand spelling.  I stop to go to the bathroom or drink more coffee.  And then I tumble on, so long as I'm still in it.  I'm feeling a whole lot of the emotions that my characters are feeling or soon will feel, and people who have seen me like this have asked if I am alright.  The expressions on my face worry them.

Roughly divided, I have five sections:
Approach in black and white
Loss of innocence: enigma
Answers in the undying world of the dead
The precincts of the living: appalling and appealing
Thor: questions answered and questions unasked

I hope when this is done, Amy will smell clews ... and maybe even find a few.  And I hope the foreshadowing runs deep into the story.  (I also hope it's not too consarned trite.)

I've finished the first section and almost finished the second.  We'll see if I can get to the third before sleep comes to redeem its rights.

And then I have to go and fill in what I missed, but first I owe Amy some stuff and I should do a review or two as well.

A business can legitimate but not established, or legitimate but a maverick.

Just found an interesting spoonerism: Fire and Ice; Ire and Vice.  There's something very ... political ... about it.

But then you don't know what new stuff has come in on the stories that you are following.  (Hint for new feature, Sol.)

Great sruff.  I'll add a few suggestions later.