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Well, good evening to you and to Annette. This is KA983. That's excellent. I always used to joke that, you know, in a 50,000 word novel I'd hit 25,000 words and someone has to die. Now that actually has happened with Mindbender's Gambit, and that may be part of the problem. Actually, what happens at the halfway mark of this book our heroine gets transferred to this nasty, nasty hostile world where they're starting a flight school because they need it for economic reasons. The Star Master hours which are what backs galactic currency because that's the one thing. The Star Master's ability to find habitable worlds easily and cheaply It's the one thing everybody values, whether they have that kind of pilot in their population or not. So they're flight hours backed currency. And if you've got a flight school on your little nasty world, the flight hours these pilots eventually generate get registered to your banks. So it's this direct economic thing, and our heroine gets to go help get this stupid school off the ground. And it's a nasty little world where they do things like put her ship on the other side of a customs barrier so that the local grocery stores can't deliver groceries to her address. Things like this. Little harassing things. And she gets to deal with that stuff. But there's nobody who dies at 25,000 words. This book I think sits at 75,000 at this point and it'll be shorter when I get done revising it. Okay.