Spoiler: He hadn't. He was just being reckless.

#20: If he had had any wards up, they were lost now, fluttering away on the parts of the veil he'd held with his mind.

My #NaNoWriMo stats for today:
Day 21 cumulative goal: 35,007
My total word count so far: 20,770. I'm actually sort of catching up.
Of course, I should be nearing the end of Yagmar by now, but I think I'm only about halfway through. I may end up closer to 40,000 words, but I can probably trim some off in the edit.

Spoiler: There was.

#21: "Hopefully there'll be nothing to connect any of this to us."

#NaNoWriMo update:
Today's word count: 21,271
Day 22 cumulative goal: 36,674
Fortunately, this is a novella. I was planning on writing two of them, about 25k each. Instead, I think I'll just write one. So, the real goal now is to finish the story by the end of the month, however many words that ends up being.

After that:
December will be marketing for Yellow Tape and Coffee.
January will be editing Yagmar and querying Thoughtless.
February will be
March, Pre-orders for Yellow Tape and Coffee go live.
April - June and beyond will be marketing Yellow Tape and Coffee while working on whatever my next project is.
Hopefully some time during that, Thoughtless will sell and, if not, and Yellow Tape does well, I'll look into doing the same for Thoughtless and future projects as well.