Yes, I'm wondering when someone's going to get around to asking one of the Muses the story. They should know what happened better than anyone.

I do wonder what they're going to do about the next book. The end of book 9 seems like a perfectly awful place to end a novel ("No more delays!") but I don't see anywhere that'd be much better (maybe halfway through 10, end of the Si Vales Valeo?) short of where we are now. It may be that a lot of books 7 and 8 will collapse shorter in a novel format and they could fit the entire castle arc?