While a bit of this second book has, and will be, played out while I’m tucked safely in the warmth of our quiet home, sitting at a homemade desk in a small bedroom upstairs…I find my most of my muses huddled around a wood-burning stove out in the shadowed shop behind our house. A fitting place, I think, for Nicolas to come to grips with the Gate of the Deep. The City of Relic’s gatekeep that faces the dreaded fog-banks of the Cold Sea…