Roses are red. Violets are violet and not blue. Words are words and I liked this chapter. Some additional words might do the thing.
Yay! I like how this story ends optimistically. That it's not a story of failure, but of how Talmid succeeded something. And finally we can call this story, perhaps the longest AM yet, (No? How long were TRH and TDD?) complete. I like how Mikhaila's scared and awed of Brocktree
There have been some suggestions about Ember, but I don't know if I'm at liberty to say.
Borock appeared in Ironsides while he was supposed to be dead after C&E.
You're at 28125 words currently. Around 500 words more than TRH. Conquackulations, Talmid, you have broken the AM length record!
Stirling, how do you feel with second place? :P
Looking forward for the Epiclogue.