For the first half a lot of it has to do with the character limit. 8500 is the max for a post and I was over it at one point, so I kept bouncing around trying to shorten it. Autumns room was going to have more witchy stuffs around, like a broom and cauldron, and an undead crow that would lead Nil to Summer's room. There was also going to be more to do with the book. There wasn't much to tell about Winter's room. I thought about including fancy clothes, paintings, and a violin and stand for sheet music, but those are things she'd have taken with her when she left. There was supposed to be a bit about the roof having collapsed in Spring's room but I guess I went to rewrite it and forgot. I also couldn't really think of much to put in her room to be honest! Summer's room went through the most edits. I was going to describe various weapons including guns, a wooden training dummy and weights, and empty food cans and wrappers. And last time I tried to write a mystery with subtle clues not a single person picked up on it. Everyone got dressed and ready for a fancy Halloween ball instead. So those two paragraphs got cut. The second half is just shit though. I wrote it the day I posted it and rushed it out without really editing anything. I had written a few paragraphs of the other three vamps and Nil fighting together until Gorlok could do his thing, but I hated it and I just wanted to be done. I think part of my impatience with it all was coming down with something, I've been pretty sick these past two days. Oh! There was also a dream sequence before waking up in the hotspring, a scene in the ballroom with some sad girl dancing, and Nil was going to eavesdrop on the other vamps meeting to better set up future plots as opposed to that last few bits of dialogue!

Ah, i see, the character count do be a little beech. I take it you didn't want to split this part into two parts? Like have the rooms and mansion stuff in one post and then the fighty bits in another? For the rooms, maybe you could've put stuff in Winter's room that was too big/impractical to carry, like a cello or one of those reeeeaaaallly big oil portraits that take up an entire wall? For spring, well, i don't know what you could've done with her place either besides cover the whole thing in vines and make it look like a huge version of a butterfly garden. Since everything's stunted anyway, i suppose it'll have to do. I actually like the second part, aside from Gorlock spontaneously generating from nowhere to save Nil. It was cool to see how Nil cycles through all of her battle tricks only to get beat anyway, and her own weakness against Melinoe paralleled the ruin of the mansion. I think it was a good call postponing the dream sequence because you can probably tuck that away somewhere and save it for a flashback/foreshadowing/prophecy kinda deal for later. Clearly though, Autumn must be the favorite child and Spring the least favorite based on how many lines of descriptions their room gets lol. Get better soon cuz i don't want to see anymore characters teleporting from out of thin air :).