No suggestions for helping...
I'd like to finish your story tonight, or tomorrow, but no promises other than this: I'll get it done before I leave Saturday. I'm positive.
It's just my scenes are sort of working for once. It's magic. And that's a pun for this story.
There's certainly no rush where the story's concerned.
You may have hit on the embarrassing part by now, though. I need to find real riddles...the ones I put in were horrid. I just Googled a page and cut and paste a bunch for now.