Quick update and notice about the upcoming sequel story!

Hey there! Thank you so much for reading this story, and I really hope you enjoyed it!

So it's been awhile since this story concluded. It was the first time I had ever actually completed a "longer-than-a-one-shot" story, and it was awesome. Heck, it wasn't even super long, and I knew I had a lot more story left to tell. It felt great, and I actually fairly quickly started work on a sequel story. However, as is the way with life, school started to really get into the nitty-gritty of things, and so work on the story definitely slowed. I had a couple chapter's done by about November, but I didn't want to start uploading chapters until I had the first ones all written and edited so there would be less of a delay. And then it was January, and I lost all of the documents I had saved to my computer. A complete wipe, nothing could be recovered. Surprisingly, I still had a little luck, and the first three chapters had survived via the email I had sent them in to my proofreader. However, the others I was working on were not so lucky. Losing all of my writing was extremely defeating, and it has taken me awhile to work up the motivation to keep writing. But here I am! Finally getting my act together, and here to announce the sequel.

But the point of this note isn't just to make excuses or throw myself a pity party. I also wanted to thank everyone for reading this story. I know, I know, I did that in the short A/N on the final chapter, but I really want to emphasize how much it meant to me. I loved answering all your questions, and responding/trying to fix your criticisms. I feel like through writing this I've become better at what I do (you can almost see it in the differences between the first and final chapters), and I'm excited to see how the sequel plays out.

I had a better version of that in the documents on my computer that I lost but I'm not salty about it.

So this is it, the official announcement that a sequel to "Guns and Swords" will be posting soon! The setting will be Mass Effect 2, with a Skyrim that I got to make up 2 years worth of history for (don't worry, I didn't do anything super crazy).

Here's hoping I can come up with a better title than the one this one had!