Action packed, but, particularly in the third paragraph, I felt a little rushed for it…
Still, it follows on reasonably well, and as commented above, your central character is really very interesting – if you could pop some fairytale psychoanalysis in there I’d be well and truly impressed!
A nice continuation, even if I felt it lost some detail in the amount of content it packed in – this is the great Ficly dilemma! MH :)