I worked on Project Midnight last night. The writing itself is terrible and I’m unlikely to keep any of it, but I did gain some clarity.

Mostly, I realized that:

Zoara = Azure
Alyra = Aeryn

I intended for this to be a prequel to a story I started twenty years ago, but I think I’ve come upon the missing pieces of what I was originally trying to create in the first place.

What if this isn’t meant to be a prequel at all? What if Project Midnight has been Rayne all along? Once I started thinking of it that way a lot of plot points I’d been struggling with started to make sense. And I think – I think – I’ve got this now.