>>I know you probably weren't aiming for this reaction specifically (you
>>did not go into any gory detail about the procedure, for which I am
>>grateful, and kept the focus on the characters' reactions), and I'm
>>the first to admit that I have a very low tolerance for images of pain
>>and torture. Still, not much you can do about visecral reactions.
>
>Ah, I understand. Sorry about that, but under the circumstances there
>wasn't really any avoiding it. I actually rather tried to
>dodge it - when I wrote the scene where Skuld is talking about how
>it's all easy-peasy in this day and age, I thought that was how it was
>going to go down. I only realized the "easy" version wasn't going to
>work at around the same time Skuld did.

Dramatically speaking it was a good call! After that scene, anything else would just be an anticlimax. My inner author is 100% behind you on this.

I guess you're going to need to figure out if "it was a very well-done dramatic twist that gave me a serious case of the jibblies" is a compliment.