People like Ellen Fremedon and the lovely resonant keep asking me about different bits of the storyline in the "Credulity and Conviction" universe. This is another one of those, posted twenty-two hours before the release of HBP, to outrun the inevitable jossing.

I couldn't have done it without the ongoing beta support of Ellen and resonant, and the last-minute cheerleading of Ellen. This story is, in fact, for Ellen.

The year is 2002 -- in fact this is set immediately after Best Man.

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The Deep Dust of Years