I didn't make my PEGASUS deadline today.  I probably knew by the end of last week that I wasn't going to.  Sylvi—my heroine—goes off and has adventures, as my heroines are wont to do, and when she comes home again, all kinds of things have changed, including her.  Followed by my Frodo-was-alive-but-taken-by-the-Enemy ending, and you're not going to be able to turn the page and find out what happens next for at least a year, and . . . well . . . let's just leave it as 'at least a year'.  I...