Oh, Honey, you have always been so kind about AIRN! And, truth be told, that verse still consumes me, a little, and so I was so glad to write you an extract from it. I was also keen to write from Arch's POV - the thing about AIRN is that we get these unremitting 12 chapters of Cook POV, where his love and obsession with Arch is documented meticulously, but Arch remains a bit of a cipher, very much an Object.

The scene with the 'phone in Ch 7, with Cook - you know it's Arch, don't you? ;)

I do have a long (25k word!) AIRNverse story coming up, which tells what happened to them in 2015 (Nine 1/2 Weeks in L.A.). I hope you'll be there for that <3