I was up until 6 or 7 this morning, but I used the time productively, writing a first draft for Chapter 15. It's a bit different, it's from the point of view of a person who believes "Nice people do not make history. Nice people write histories deploring the awful people who actually MAKE history."
The character is an asshole (my nicknames for him when I was rewriting the storybook was "That asshole" and "The Fat toad"). And it indicates that things are ramping up.
Just like my writing, now that I think about it.