Luckily, Marroth worked it all out in the end. And S'teve. S'teve proved significantly awesome, and also sort of surprised me in one regard. (In this case, Tony doesn't actually get an apostrophe because he rides a gold dragon. Back in the early days, the dragons would shorten the riders names for convenience while flying, but gold riders' names were never shortened in order to show respect. Now'a'days, the shortening is considered an honorific and no one really knows why.)

Having plot does help, except just now when I get to one part and realize that it has a significant gap between "now" and "dramatic climax" that needs filling. (facepalm) I'll figure something out. I hope. I think it's just the multiple PoVs that are eating me.... (It does! Almost anything that results in Peter having serious issues of denial would make for Win. I would like to think so, but I was probably distracted by chores porn.)