Sometimes I wonder if writing activates some amount of schizophrenia.
This storyline is a side characters storyline. Just something I threw together to help give deeper understanding of my main story. And this moment is a b story in said side characters side story. THEN a side character in the side characters b story merely mentions the existence of another character.
That character has become the most compelling part of my book now.
I am not in control
THIS is what happens when a side character talks to a side character who creates another character in passing and that character becomes a main character.