This thoughtful Sideways Student admits:

I had no intention of killing off anyone major in the story, yet I wasn’t surprised by which character came to mind first when I considered it as a possibility. She’s a great character and an important minor antagonist, but I dreaded having to continue her as a story thread into the ending of the novel; it felt tedious and cumbersome. Considering the consequence of killing her off solved this problem, and then a truly amazing thing happened.

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