[Coda]

That story, by the way, is actually finished, and I promise you that the ending isn't going to be what you expected at any point leading up to it. The author has since moved on to a "biopunk" story, set in a world where Frankenstein is an instruction manual instead of just a story, following a group of biologically-engineered (except for one) kids that are actually black-ops weapons under the command of the Crown.