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Misinterpretation of the 3/5ths compromise is one of the most insidious half-truths of our age.  The 3/5ths clause did not take representation from blacks.  It reduced the degree to which the =slaveowners= could count their =slaves= as bodies to gain representation.

I should have written that Atticus takes the world as he finds it AS THE WORLD HE LIVES IN.  He tries to change it AFTER assessing it clearly and accurately.

The reason it's worse to cheat a colored man IN THAT WORLD is that the colored man is already cheated, is denied the ability to fight back, and is regarded as automatically guity.

That's not condescension, though it would be today in most places.  That's basic 'don't hit a man when he's down'.

The battle-for-Shogran/Rescue-the-children chapter is coming along.  I should have the last blocks into place in a few more hours, but there will be at least a day of polishing, maybe more.  I'll probably put it up before I'm completely happy with it.
It'll probably be about 4,200 words.

No, for the wet-noodle lasher you should definitely write ''craw', unless you mean to provoke a flaccid pasta flurry.

Simplify the grammar logic.  Stay with the English of the reader, but be a little clumsy with it.  'It is worse, that his mother was a slave', or 'What is worse, that his mother was a slave.'  If you can mirror the Pictish grammar it will be a bonus, but few readers will know you've done that--or not.

It's not a summary, it's a pitch.

No, not alone.

The dead Jaylene is brought back to life to rescue her friends, her goddess, and the world from an evil that seems to reach everywhere.

Anver, assistant to Master Mage Kha, is forced into ever-expanding responsibilities, saving his school, his Master, and maybe the world, when he is forced into a task that uncovers an ancient evil--and leads him to find love.

Master Mage Kha should have died with his friends in Earthwound.  When his recovery is incomplete, he seeks help--and finds healing, power, love and danger, all gifts of the godess he despises.

When her shop is invaded and her husband kidnapped, a village sorcerer and her daughter are forced into adventure in the Worlds she left behind, Worlds threatened by social upheaval and secrets buried for thousands of years.

=Children and Beasts= is the first book of =The Sorcerer's Progress=.

I think this sells your story short.  The key element is the linkage between the human and dragon twins, a linkage by nature and politics.

Okay, I have a not-quite first draft, with some edits noted where I missed points from the outline.  I have a couple of scenes to merge, and I have to attach it to and edit it with the first part of the chapter.

Merran will be driven to study how to fight Shogran's creatures--and she'll regret that after her next encounter with Shogran--who will have buried some of these details in defensive amnesia.  (It will take well over a week to get him healthy again.)