you mentioned a few weeks ago that someone was going to die in Mercury but you changed your mind? what was originally going to happen?

emeralddodge:

Reid was on the chopping block for a long, long time. In fact, I’d planned to kill him up until I was writing the hospital chapters in Mercury. 

What happened was that I felt that both Ember and the Fischer brothers had been through enough tragedy. Ember, while a total butthead in the book, deserved her happy ending. The Fischer men had a ridiculously hard path in life. At the end of it all, Reid’s death wouldn’t have had the same punch because it would’ve been just one more sad thing for those characters. 

But someone had to die, which I why I went the direction I did.