Chapter 22 - The Reunion

The Lovers - Rider Waite
Tarot

An interesting chapter for me this one, and one which ended quite differently from how I'd planned. I thought about having multiple scenes showing the activities of different people involved in the story, similar to Chapter 17 - Sunday plans. However, it seemed to me that the shock of what had happened to Celia in the previous chapter - Death on the Rialto, would cause an enormous emotional jolt to Franz, which is what he needs to get him out of his head.
So, I dropped everybody else and just focused on the two of them. This makes the chapter much shorter than any of the others and also means that from now on they can work as allies more effectively. Which they're definitely going to need to do.

The story so far: Celia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in Venice, thanks to the help of some African street sellers. But how will Franz react when she tells him?

Chapter 22 – Reunion can now be found on the right under 'Good stuff'.