Spent some serious time at the notebook (interestingly enough, not a computer, an actual notebook, you know, the paper kind, <$4.00 at the drug store) working out ideas and have restructured and re-purposed (for lack of a better word) the characters. Chaps 2-4 are now 1-2 (sound familiar?) and Chaps 1-2 are now somewhere in the middle. Am adding several new ones and drafting out what they will be. Things are shaping up nicely, I think.