Editing Matryoshka (section)

===Post-[[Echidna]]===
With the monster Echidna dead Maddie was there during the meeting of Faultline and the Case 53s of the [[Protectorate]]. She would join the fledgling Irregulars.<ref name="I19.n">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/f-a-q/ Interlude 19.y (Nixed)]</ref><ref name="MI c1">Your thoughts & feelings on the various pieces are very much in line with my own. The parts I enjoyed writing were the parts you enjoyed reading. The parts you had quibbles, are the parts where I had doubts in the writing process.<br/><br/>I, too, had doubts about how Weld accepted her, but I told myself that he’s an accepting, trusting guy. He was ok with Skitter from his first appearance, and was respectful when crossing paths with her in the s9 arc. He’s just been hit by a major crisis of faith and a lot of major info, and he’s fallen into a leadership role with the other Cauldron-made. So, I told myself, it sort of makes sense that he’d be eager to accept more into the fold.<br/><br/>But… yeah. That doesn’t change that they should be more suspicious as a group.<br/><br/>So there’s significant issues in terms of the conception (Witness being created; it does make sense in-story, it was just poorly explained in two offscreen moments), and in terms of the conclusion (the acceptance of the character) with a handful of issues in between (One of my big problems with the chapter was that Vista was a prop).<br/><br/>And to top it off, yeah, Witness isn’t an essential character. She’s someone I might build an entire arc around, and if I wasn’t working steadily towards a conclusion, it’d make sense to introduce a complication like her. But there’s no need for her in the grand scheme of it. I’d intended for her to link Weld’s group to the narrative, but it’s not worth the added complication and the (severe) hit to the story’s tone.<br/><br/>So I think it’s just better to scrap it and cover the necessary bases in other ways. I wrote the chapter with too little time and too many distractions (flooring people stomping through and asking questions), and in retrospect, I shouldn’t have uploaded it with the doubts I had. - [http://web.archive.org/web/20131123061702/http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/interlude-19-donation-bonus-2/#comment-12845 comment by Wildbow] on the [[Missing Interlude]]</ref>