My Day o' Virtue

Got my 500 words. Cleaned for an hour. Wrote a report for work. And my car was in the shop all day, so I walked a ton. I'm feeling very virtuous.

The action has shifted from far-future post-plague New England to a small island in the vicinity of Indonesia. A whole crop of wild-ass minor characters are about to burst on the scene. But for now, Willow is having her first face-to-face encounter with Ruyad (a.k.a. Antagonist #2) in an open-air rotunda on a jungle night, and wondering what the heck that oil lamp is all about.