Part II Teaser - (LONG)

I woke up a bit cranky this morning.  I don't know if it's the weather (which is unseasonably warm and kind of stuffy) or the fact that Mason is having some trouble with his school -- he still loves it, it's the school that's causing trouble.  I don't really want to post about it in any kind of public forum because, frankly, I'm afraid of what I might say.  (Not to worry, the problem has been resolved officially, but I'm just experiencing residue crankiness.)  
 
So, to cheer myself up, I thought I'd post what I've written so far in Mouse/Jibril.  As I told

xochiquetzl in an e-mail, this is threatening to become a saga, if only because being nice to Mouse involves him actually caring a bit about Jibril, who he's never really met.  Plus, if I must be honest with myself, I'm really enjoying going back to these characters.  It's amazing how much I remember about them (although I notice Jibril changes the way he looks a lot, not only in my books, but also in my head.)

Okay, enough talking, here it is  (also weird formatting may abound as I'm going to import this in from Word):

UPDATE:  Never mind.  LJ hates me... so I'm going to have to post this elsewhere and provide a link, as I can NOT get the LJ-cut to work with imported text.  Sorry to those who had their eyes scorched....

 UPDATE ON UPDATE:  Okay, so I'm actually pretty fast with the ol' HTML code as it turns out.  This is not offically linked to anything else, so don't go looking for it at Mouse's House yet.  Here's the partial:
http://www.mninter.net/~sprounds/avatar[2].htm