Hello everyone!

So I just want to say thank you to everyone who reviewed, liked, or favorited this story, oh what? 3, 4 years ago? I bet it'll be quite a surprise if any of you get a notice saying I posted a new chapter. Well, guess what? Psych!

This is just an author's note which is probably abundantly clear by now.

Anyhow, good news is, I fully intend to go through with this story. I started it on a whim one night when I was fifteen, at a point in my life where I had absolutely no dedication to a thing once the initial excitement wore off (oh wait, has anything changed?) but I have never forgotten it and it has been stewing in the back of my mind for awhile. The "plot" will go in an entirely new direction than I had planned before (planning? what's that?) but that doesn't really effect you since this consists of all of two chapters of like 1,000 words each.

And so, riding off the exhilaration of winning Nanowrimo, and the desire to not stop writing just because the month of November is over, I've decided this is going to be my new project. My initial plan was going to actually complete (or at least, write a good chunk of) the story, so that I knew I wouldn't just write another two chapters and then leave it, but as that's been my plan for the better part of a year, and I've written maybe the equivalent of half a chapter, so that's obviously not working.

SO. You all have a task. You are my accountability partner. When I don't update, YOU WHINE. If I'm just spewing out crap in order to update, YOU POINT OUT ALL MY FLAWS. If I apparently disappear and don't respond to you, YOU CONTINUOUSLY SPAM ME UNTIL I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO RETURN. (This all working on the assumption that anyone really cares about the fic at all, of course)

And moving on; I plan to repost the first chapter as a new fic (with the same name) by tomorrow. The prologue is basically the same as it currently is on here, but it has been through some major editing and hopefully is better and far less melodramatic than I wrote when I was fifteen. Also, just forget about the second chapter. It never happened. It doesn't exist. Wipe it from your minds.

If you made it through all this, I applaud you...and then I ask you: why?

Honestly, I'll admit I tend to ramble and write far more than anyone even cares about. I probably could have just said, "Hey y'all, I'm rewriting this story. I'll post tomorrow. Check it out." But instead you get 500 words of me going on about nonsense.

Peace. (be on ye, brethren)