I know I probably shouldn’t keep second-guessing myself, but here I am again with a question for you all…
Do you think the last chapter deserves a place in the main story? Initially, it was meant to be a standalone—an event that happened within the story but existed outside its core narrative.
But then, after a week of pulling our hair out over it, that "one-shot" turned into an 18k+ word chapter. Even we were shocked. And the funny thing? We didn’t even collaborate in the traditional sense. Vamsi wrote his parts, I wrote mine, and somehow, when we put them together, it just *worked.* We loved the result so much that we decided—this belongs in the main story.
It all started with a single question from him: *"Josh, I’ve read this several times… so why did Karna allow his brother’s murderer to live? Isn’t that a massive plot hole?"* Then he laid out all the laws written there, and the discussion spiraled into something much bigger.
The version you read was raw. No edits, no polish—just raw emotion spilled onto the page. But I have this nagging feeling that it didn’t land the way we hoped. Maybe it was the politics, maybe it was the courtroom drama—maybe it was just *too much.*
So, if it didn’t resonate with you the way we wanted it to, tell us why. What didn’t work? What pulled you out of the moment? We want you to love this journey as much as we do, and your thoughts mean the world to us.
