NefertitiFenison

I'm a slooow reader these days. I know that in the past I can read many chapters in the same day, but lately I keep it to just one chapter per day. My energy just isn't what it used to be. But I still care. It's just that it will take longer for me to get through y'all books. Thanks for waiting for me to catch up.

OIT and OET now have matching covers! Thank you @JH_Foliage for drawing the cover for the boys' Amsterdam arc.

This is a short chapter, probably the shortest so far at 1705 words-ish, but I wrote it because @quibbie is right that Navrita Dhillon deserves more spotlight. (Thanks for that comment about "Just...flame?", quibs)
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1652528338-our-entangled-threads-chapter-12-remembrance

How are you guys liking my new profile and background photo? Can't tag the artist because of privacy reason but they did a good job, right? Look at that salmon. It’s Johan swimming upstream! The starfish is Kenta and the dolphin is Chandresh.

Unsolicited R4R requests will be kindly deleted. Don't just drop your book link in the comments without actually engaging with my stories first. Key word: engage. It's disrespectful when you expect me to check your book out when you haven't given my stories the attention they deserve. You want me to reciprocate, then make it so that I can see reciprocal nature of the exchange in action.

OET progress note: The thing about pandemic-era grief that is hard to talk about without getting sentimental is that once you've experienced one loss, you can't help but brace yourself for another loss, especially when death is treated like statistics on the news and so it's like it's normal to anticipate another death. I guess it's called anticipatory fear? 
          I'm currently trying to figure out how to show Chandresh has that fear without spelling it out too obviously. Kind of like I want to drop hints that he's scared Kiran is next. Or Mahira. And he's also scared of losing Johan and Kenta. So maybe each time he and Johan clash because of some stupid argument about their game/ Project Chloris, he would feel so guilty about clashing. Meanwhile, Kenta would be like "these clashes don't necessarily mean the friendship is over, you know. We've been through worse, remember?"

I swear chapter 12 of my series is cursed because in OIT it's the climax when things go very wrong and in OET... well, no spoiler but I plan to do a scene inspired by what I actually lived through re: personal loss during a time when funeral could not be held because a crowd was a health risk.

So, today Our Invisible Threads has 500 votes total. Thank you for all the love, everyone.
          
          In Indonesian: Terima kasih semuanya! 
          In Batak: Mauliate godang.

I'm so tempted to have a scene in OET where the boys argue with Nardhia about the plot of Disney's Tangled, specifically about whether the king was justified in taking away that golden flower from Gothel.

I just told my husband that if we ever adopted an Egyptian Mau, we should call this cat Akhi, short for Akhenaten.