INDEXING: REFLECTIONS episode #2, "Broken Glass."

I can't wait! Is it lunchtime yet?

I don't see it yet....I haven't gotten an email notification or anything.

I don't see it either, but I double-checked in the Amazon description and there's an episode due today. Sigh ... they don't actually promise released at midnight, but I wanted it as my morning commute.

The e-mail notification seems to be the most reliable way to find out if it's up yet, as opposed to the website.

Not showing up yet for me either, so I guess it won't be my lunchtime read...

We've just started reading the first Indexing aloud as our bedtime story with the Offspring (as Alia prefers to be known). A big hit so far! Unfortunately I expect the Indexing: Reflections won't be complete before we've finished the first one.

I reached out to the Amazon support team; they are aware the second chapter didn't push, and are trying to fix it.

Thanks for letting us know! Now to wait very impatiently for it to drop.

thanks - I was concerned as I didn't get an e-mail and it's not synching.

I read it. Wow. This is going to be intense.

Someone who can change her own narrative from one story to another, that's truly frightening. That prison, though, that's evil all on its own.

Seconded. It kinda reminded me a bit of the Azkaban chapters in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality in that both are incredibly harsh.

I am intrigued at this plot idea, especially in regards to Sloane. I suspect this book will be more hers than Henry's.

Wow, and I mean, wow! Very good call on the order; if this chapter had come first and we'd then gotten the HR review it would have seemed awkward. As it is, the first chapter immediately struck me as the calm before the storm. There was tension, like we get here in Florida when they tell us a tropical wave is coming out of Africa, but at least we know we'll have weeks to watch it develop and see where it goes. Not so for our merry band of government employees; they just went from a tropical depression to a Category 3 with the snap of a finger, and the winds are still building.

I am really liking the way Demi is developing, and the way Henry is reaching out to her. I think Demi has grasped that, while this isn't the life she envisioned, and there's a lot about it that totally sucks, it's still not the end of the world, because she and the team stop that from happening on a regular basis. Sure, not many will ever know she's helped save the world, repeatedly, but she will. Now she just has to grasp the penultimate unspoken truth of being a hero -- it's okay to be scared. After all, if you aren't afraid you can't be brave, and when you're on the Index if you aren't scared, you're an idiot or you're insane.

In a word, I loved this chapter. It has me feeling like I do when I take a walk along our seawall in the backyard in the evening. You see a few weeks ago I was doing that and an alligator burst out of a hole that the rain had washed out under the wall. It was only about a four footer, and I had clearly frightened it as much as it did me, but it was only three feet away from me and it looked a lot bigger at the time, and to my panicked mammalian brain it didn't seem to be the least bit afraid, just really angry. Now, when I walk back there, my eyes keep looking for the places that might be hiding a nasty surprise, and that's the feeling this chapter leaves me with.

I mean, geez, Seanan, thank you so much for dredging those feelings up! (giggle)

The only downside, again, is I have to wait two weeks for the next chapter. But hey, there's a silver lining this time ... T-minus seven days and counting for A Red-Rose Chain!

I've been rereading The Winter Long in preparation. Can't wait!

Wait, I know Birdie fucked with the stories, but they can CHANGE THEMSELVES? AFTER ACTIVATION?

Officially terrified.

And that prison HAS to go. That is just not nice, even if they've been placed in the "bad guy" role.

It's not so much that the story changed itself, Elise made it change.

We already have precedent for this. Gerry changed his story, escaped it in fact, and in so doing, he changed Henry's as well. Of course that was rather minor compared to this, as Henry is still a Snow White.

And yes, the prison is a horrible place. Unfortunately fairy tale characters aren't protected by the Constitution. They aren't even protected by copyright law.

Makes me think some of Sloane's eagerness to just kill the afflicted stems from spending time in the deeper levels of Childe prison (being a villain, and all.) Imprison briefly while investigating or attempting to rehabilitate, sure, but a clean execution is preferable to being in the conditions Demi described for the rest of your life. Heck, a messy execution is better than being tied up and half-muted and unable to feed yourself for the rest of your life.