I realize I do you an injustice by not reading Fire Warms, but I've seen the looming shadow of that opus on the Vicky forum. Have you broken 2,000 posts already? That thing is a monster (which I mean in the nicest possible way, of course )!!! There is truly NO WAY that I could read it in four days only. I'm guessing two weeks of solitary confinement would do the trick, but unfortunately I don't have that time available. I do realize, based on your Colorado AAR and the general caliber of your comments, that I would be doing myself a favor to read Fire. Consider it on my to-do list (right up there with 'find a bigger apartment' and 'get a pay raise' ).