A.B. Channing

❖ “No eruption,” murmurs Yaz when we wake on the third day. ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, the infiltration of the Sand-Coral Cluster has begun.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481295255-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, an anxious toddler and a strengthening storm prompt a sober round of contingency plans among the camp’s leaders. 
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/34-tobias-123954031
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: Neptune’s winds are the fastest in the solar system, reaching 2,100 km/h (580 m/s; 1,300 mph).

❖ “I spin around. Xivay has both hands on the wall, xir face a mask of alarm.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, an ominous ocean event shakes things up in Roshaska and beyond. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481295211-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, the second storm warning in as many weeks prompts a quick pack-down, more extensive than ever before. 
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/33-lingmei-123368387
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: During intense solar flares, astronauts see bright flashing streaks of light as a result of high-energy particles zipping through their eyeballs.

Hey, are you participating in ONC this year? I’ve been waiting for something new on your profile in case you were, but I haven’t seen anything.

❖ “I’m glad Sar’s next messenger comes to find me directly before delivering her news.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, news from the new alliance’s surface branch prompts an important step for Taiki.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481295166-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022 
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, a major experimental success spills over into an unnerving realization for the scientific teams. 
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/32-tobias-122930210 
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: If earth became a black hole, it would be about 0.69 inches (17.4mm) across—about the size of a fingernail.

❖ “I have rarely come so close to actually, physically dropping what I’m doing as when Ruka reappears from the open water around the island of the yellow fish.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, Sar and Makeba meet face to face for the very first time. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481295119-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022 
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, the teams’ relationship with Sanigon Inc. has graduated to corporate espionage—in both directions.
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/31-alex-122318310 
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: The northern lights are caused by charged particles hitting earth’s atmosphere, and they generate power. Lots of it. Over 1 trillion watts on a single auroral display, in some cases. We can’t harvest it, though; it’s too thinly spread out.

❖ “This isn’t just about gathering a thousand Kels. It’s grown far past that. But he keeps falling back on the number.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, Ande and Taiki leave the past in the past for the first time since shortly after Ande wound up in the water. It’s only uphill from here… right?
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481295010-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022
          
          ❖ Meanwhile on Rocks Can Dance, what Yahvi thought was a minor rock moth mystery deepens dramatically. 
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/30-yahvi-121775287
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: Gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are so large, their gravity may condense hydrogen gas into metallic form at their centers.

❖ “I talked to Yaz and Finika before leaving,” Taiki signs, proving in as many words that there’s far more to the story than I’ve been aware of. ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, Ande and Taiki finally get a chance to talk again. The result? Unexpected.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481294777-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022
          
          ❖ No Rocks Can Dance chapter this week—I’ve hit an edit hurdle in the next chapter that might take a couple days to work through. Updates will resume next Friday.
          
          ❖ Looking over my own schedule and the prompts for this year's Open Novella Contest (ONC), it looks like I won't be joining this time around. Not the official contest, at least. There's a chance I'll steal a couple prompts and write a novella offline to be posted on Patreon, but I'm trying not to commit to anything. Best of luck to those participating!
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: The yellow-bellied sea snake is adapted to complete its entire life cycle out at sea.

❖ “If Taiki wants to talk to me alone, this could either go well or very badly.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, a private chat and a power handover set the stage for a proper second branch of the Sing to the Moon alliance—and with it, another major step towards the alliance’s ultimate goal.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481294828-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, a private chat has Tobias questioning his choice of living arrangement.
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/29-tobias-120904502
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: Neptune and Uranus’s blue color comes from a layer of methane in their atmospheres, which absorbs red color from the sun's light.

❖ “When you have a moment,” says Ruka, “I owe you an apology.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, the island of the yellow fish accepts its first major wave of new arrivals.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481294646-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022 
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, a breakthrough in the lab sets the teams’ biological study on a new and promising path.
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/28-tobias-120296617 
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. And, in fact, at the center of almost every large galaxy in the universe that we have observed so far.

❖ “A huge shape flinches away from the island-side. I don't want to know if that one was sneaking up on us.” ❖ 
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, the clearing of the island of the yellow fish begins. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481294718-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, a scroll through correspondence between Sanigon and the Jenu government deepens the mystery of the two’s involvement.
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/27-lingmei-119858273
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: The total mass of all astroids in the solar system combined is only 3% that of Earth's Moon.