No tears were shed

I'm back in the saddle and editing Uncertain Heirs. Thus far, I've cut over five hundred words from the first two scenes of Chapter 1. Which is funny -- the first thing I cut was a paragraph from the opening that I had painstakingly crafted over and over and over to be perfect. Only now do I realize just how detrimental it was to Chapter 1. C'est la vie, I guess.