1/3: relief

I'm in the last half-hour stretch of The Shepherd's Crown audiobook, and in the half-hour before that it seemed like the book was setting up the death of the main character at the end, something I really- really-really don't want to happen.  But last night before I fell asleep I remembered that in an earlier book in the series an older version of the main character comes to help her younger self--so she can't really die at this point.  Whew.