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You probably already thought of this, but I usually put something at the top of the scene/chapter (centered) to indicate time jumps. Those also serve as the markers for scene breaks. My first chapter of Galaxy Tales was an extreme case. It fast-forwarded through key childhood experiences of the two kids in the story. I jumped four times in a single chapter, resulting in four scenes. Something like:

AD 4005

Four-year-old Joseph lay in his big-boy bed...

Five Years Later -- AD 4010

Seven-year-old Apollo sat in the game room...

Seven Years Later -- AD 4017

Sixteen-year-old Joseph descended the stairs...

Same Year -- AD 4017

Fourteen-year-old Apollo rode in a four-man swampcraft...

The references to N Years Later meant that the reader didn't have to go back to the beginning of each scene to figure out how much time had elapsed between scenes. Also, the scenes began by giving the age of the POV character of each scene. Finally, giving the exact year allowed me to orient the reader as to the millennium in which the story takes place, especially 4017.

Cool. I wrote the draft interrogation of the gravedigger in one day. I'll clean it up and post it sometime Tuesday. Still have to make up names for the new characters and try to verify a few Italian police procedures, assuming I can find any in English. There wasn't much the last time I looked.

I'm debating whether the Antichrist should be more hands on in the murders of the cardinals. Currently, the suspicion of the detectives is that they are pursuing a powerful demon who may be taking his orders from the Antichrist, who is a supernatural human. If the Antichrist is hands on, that means he's personally involved in the break in at the orphanage, the killings, the attacks on Connor, and the videos of the dark being. I think there's more tension in hunting the Antichrist directly rather than one of his demons. Also, demons are easy to spot. Throw some holy water on someone and, if they disintegrate, they're a demon. That doesn't apply to the Antichrist since he's human. Makes him harder to track down. The only tricky bit is that humans can't slip under doors like my current demon does, so I would have to fall back on the Antichrist's supernatural nature to make that possible. The other advantage of a hands on Antichrist is that I don't have to waste time linking the demon to him. The clues lead directly to the Antichrist, not his henchman.

Just watched the premiere of Witcher, a Game of Thrones wannabe. I lost count of the number of people, places, and things named in the first fifteen minutes, and I have only a limited idea of what the episode was about. Moving on...

Is it the concept of glowing irises that you object to our the word itself?  FYI,  Connor has increasingly sparkling blue eyes as his powers grow. I was trying to reserve glowing for red eyes and sparkling for blue, but I'm open to suggestions. I stayed away from yellow because it was used in Star Wars and the Exorcist as signs of evil.

If the demon is not corporeal, then it just appears human, but can't leave anything behind, such as blood, sweat, and semen. It has none of these, so it can't leave them behind. Possessing a human male and then having sex, also leaves nothing of the demon behind, since the semen belongs to the possessed male, hence no demon child.

On the other hand, if the demon is corporeal, it appears fully human, with actual blood, sweat, and semen (with demon DNA), which would result in a half demon child.

They have the problem now that they really can't top this in terms of number of ships and Force powers. How do you make other Star Wars movies as "big" as this? I'll probably never see another one since I have no interest in Disney+ either.

Apparently, Amazon now delivers more of its own packages than Santa. All that's missing is Jeff Bezos in a Santa suit, sitting in an Amazon sleigh, pulled by eight fulfillment workers.

Nuts. Got burned big time by a major Google Chrome bug. I'm used to keeping about two dozen tabs or so open at all times. When they upgraded Chrome this week, they didn't bring across all the data, including all of my tabs. At least all of my bookmarks still exist. Word is it could take up to a week for Google to develop and roll out a fix. The buggy version had already been rolled out to over 1B people worldwide, including on Android, before they stopped the rollout. I'd hate to be the development manager right about now.

Hmm. The Star Wars reviews are all over the place. One said it's exactly what Star Wars fans want, but not where the story should have gone. Another from GameSpot shredded it. My money is on the Emperor as the character whoo can bring this story to a somewhat satisfying conclusion. TBD.

Oops. I forgot to make the grave into an upside down cross. Will fix.