Hey, hey, hey! Does everybody know what time it is?! It's CHALLENGE TIME! Carylers and McReedus writers... ASSEMBLE!

OK, that doesn't work half as well if I'm not calling The Avengers. Moving on, here are the details for our third challenge! We're going with a particular emotion this time as our challenge theme: Remorse. 

Here are the details:

• THE PROMPT: Your entry must revolve around the theme Remorse. It can be either Caryl OR McReedus (or both, if you decide to submit more than one entry). That's right. We went there. 
• It must be at least 100 words.
• THE DEADLINE: All entries are due on August 26, 10pm MST. Everything will be posted on August 27.
• THE RULES: Here is how you enter the challenge:
• Send a PM to Fairies Masquerade or Peta stating that you’re going to enter the challenge. This is very important! If we don’t get a PM, you won’t be on the list. Let us know if you're doing to submit a Caryl entry, a McReedus entry, or one of each.
• Write your fic!!
• DO NOT UPLOAD IT YET!! Wait until August 26 to upload your fic – we will be suspending automatic validation for that day for all authors who enter the challenge.
• Submission Day is August 26, post your fic. It will not appear on the website, but will enter our validation queue. Make sure you submit it under the Nine Lives Challenge category!
• Posting Day is August 27 – We will post the Master List and post all of the challenge entries so everything shows up at once. That way, we’re all surprised by what we get to read! Any challenge fics that are posted before August 27 will be deleted.

That's it! Now, we opened it to both Caryl and McReedus, so we're expecting a veritable avalanche of amazing entries this time. Get to it, writers! If you have any questions, holler at me or Peta. Let's have some fun!