On timeline: during The Morning Star, CONFLICT
Spoilers for: enormous spoilers for The Morning Star
Warnings: none to speak of

This is actually a segment of The Morning Star that I didn't end up using. For some reason, in the outline, I had it switching to Jeremy's point of view long enough to get him out of the hospital, and I wrote it that way before realizing that that was just dumb. None of the rest of the book was done from Jeremy's point of view, after all. Plus, if I wrote that part from Simon's point of view, it would actually be better.

And so I rewrote it. I was right. It was better from Simon's point of view, and that's what's in The Morning Star right now. However, I kept the discarded bit, because I liked parts of it.

Please note that the events are in a slightly different order than they are in The Morning Star, but that does not make them any less true.

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