Chapter 25 of BD is out for Squires + Shadow's Portrait

I found a decent artist and commissioned a piece instead of using Midjourney, and here's the result.

As for the chapter... it was hard to write, an actual tangle. I changed my plan for it five times in the process of writing, and quite some rewriting was done. I'm not happy enough with how it came, but I've delayed enough. The second half isn't quite as well edited as I'd like, but it'll do for now.

Anyway, without further ado, chapter 25:

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