A link to A Mage Reborn: Book Two’s latest demo update!: https://cogdemos.ink/play/adam-rifky/a-mage-reborn-2-rewrite-ver-193/mygame

Hi everyone! Hope you're staying safe and healthy
Happy to announce that the next update has been uploaded to CoGDemos. t's 21k words altogether, and narratively wraps up the Thulrum Revisited arc (which admittedly ended at a relatively odd place in the last demo).
This Thulrum Revisited chapter has been a huge undertaking--even with several branches not yet fully written out, it's nearly as long as the entirety of Book 1. While it has been fun for me to write the nitty-gritty of Thulrum life and explore the nooks and crannies of the mage's arrangement with Tahlia, I'm more than ready to finally set sights on the lands beyond the Holy City. Yotai, finally, after what feels like an eternity!
The big focus in this update is F, who gets a huge conversation scene reminiscent of the Eli's earlier in the chapter. Importantly, this scene will help set up various flags for the mage's relationship with F moving forward--including the F-Yu polyamory (which after many many reworks pre-hiatus, I finally know for sure how to approach).
There will also be another character cameoing early in the update. A little teaser of content yet to come, if you will.
Since this update was largely focused on drawing the events of the chapter to a close, I thought I'd have plenty of time to spend on filling in the gaps present in the chapter. Alas, as is becoming increasingly common, I find myself utterly underestimating the wordcount needed to achieve the things I wanted narratively. As such, the blanks in Chapter 9 will have to wait to be filled in at a later date. Probably alongside the Yotai updates, as many of the scenes in that chapter will retain their original content and only require edits, which should free up time for me to work on those outstanding items I have in my backlog.