So it's about halfway through, and...

I thought, gee, I ought to post some of my nano novel. But first!! I have to give you some background.

See, The plot's changed completely. No more ghost story, no AU Hong Kong, and thankyougodthankyouthankyou no feng shui or I Ching. My first main character was a sad Mary Sue that wasn't even INTERESTING. Which is extremely sad in a Mary Sue. But I am keeping main character #2 from AU Hong Kong. And so I'm keeping everything I wrote with him before I decided to change everything. Which is to say, that a lot of things that I set up here have to change, but I just don't have time to do it. Like, Richard doesn't have an office in the same building that Zhong (Jon) does, and the jade cups and later dream sequence stuff have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ACTUAL PLOT.

Which, is now about thieves and detectives in Victorian Hong Kong. It's kind of like my version of Ninja Pirates.
But yeah, ( here's a lot of stuff about tea. )

Some more unnamed Nano

I still need a title for this thing. 'Geomancy for Imaginary Places' isn't going to cut it seeing how there isn't any Geomancy anymore and it all takes place in Victorian Hong Kong, not AU fantasy Hong Kong. Any ideas? After this bit the plot should even out and be coherent with no more talk about I Ching and other things I don't know anything about. Well, about mystical things i don't know anything about. I have been trying to research what I can about the Hong Kong police force and what it was like when it began, but correct titles and such probably own't filter through for a few chapters, if ever.

So anyway...

( Chapter Five, which is really more like Chapter Two )