Well, chapter 7 did indeed warrant another message... And although I do remember
reading a message by Richard Lawson saying that Ranma's little speech with
Kodachi set the whole thing "off", I disagree

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the 'act' thing, I was already using my remaining brainpower to formulate some psychological theories when I started on my last message :P  Although considering the fact that Ranma went home crying, maybe it meant more to her than an act, eh?  ***And why is it that every time I start to comment on this story I wanna go back and erase the freakin' message? ***GRR***  (I *had* to put that in there somewhere)

Hmph, I just realized something (again), 50% of the messages I compose to go to the list end up being aborted after I finish them.  Does anyone else do this?  I've wasted a good three hours or more in the past two weeks composing messages that I simply abort after finishing.