0.3.3 · Warmth update
The boys get to know each other
A Prologue-through-Chapter-34 revision adds more than 6,400 net words while rebuilding the places where the story rushed past danger, friendship, desire, and its own feelings.
- Rebuilt the Prologue as embodied survival: the goblin fight, chosen mercy, costly healing, fallen-log shelter, and Caleo handoff now form one continuous danger arc.
- Revised the early Academy chapters around Caleo's practical care, Jack's first full school day, the quill lesson, Finn's salt gesture, Edric's friendship, the fountain, and the bakery confession.
- Repaired the early Kai intimacy and preserved the Chapter 14 cum question, secret box, broom slap, stiff sock, and comic room invasion without the cleaning-sitcom loop.
- Rebuilt Chapter 13 as one chronological Monday and added The Table Gets Crowded to establish weeks of café meetings and growing friendship before the rescue.
- Expanded the Caleo rescue, cabin action, medical work, Jade aftermath, healing, and Kai encounter with clear urgency and physical continuity.
- Rewrote the Headmaster, Kai, Caleo, and Blackmere sequence so its emotional, romantic, and political pressure lands cleanly.
- Added Caleo's first full close-third viewpoint chapter, The Whole Bakery Heard.
- Rebuilt Steamy Humiliation, including fuller Weapons Practice and the complete shared-masturbation route in Finn close-third.
- Separated Yarrow at the Park and River Snakes into complete chapters and let the boyfriend, Kai disclosure, forest truth, and river afternoon breathe.
- Protected anatomy, clothing, injury, names, horses, garden history, and scene-to-scene continuity while removing false-choice and repeated-exposition loops.
- The numbered release contains 106,384 authored-source words through Chapter 34. The 81,415-word continuation inventory remains draft material.