Final Authors Note:

Just like in "The Empire Strikes Back", we end the story on a tremendous downer. But at least this means one thing: Part III is on her way. I recommend putting me on an authoralert, since I don't know when I'm going to start it yet. Probably sooner than later, I think and hope.

That took a while. Sorry to everyone that was waiting on the rest of the story while I was on my hiatus. Life got hectic and blah-de-blah-blah. Seriously though, it took a little over a year to write this; I started the night of last Super Bowl. That's a tremendously long time, so thanks to everyone who stuck it out.

As always, huge shout-outs to my crack-team of reviewers and spell-checkers: jazzpha, MatsuMama, and F1yMordecai. They were fantastic to bounce ideas around and their criticisms and encouragements helped me enormously. (F1yMordecai did some boss-ass fanart as well, go check it out on the deviantart.)

And of course, any and all of you wonderful people out there that have been reading. Every review, even during that heat wave I had, was awesome to get. Your kind words became fuel for my fingers and my eyes and my brain. This was for you.

Like last time, the playlist will be written below. See you guys in the next one!

JasoTheArtisan~!

Halloween – Dave Matthews Band – Before These Crowded Streets

The Night Watch – Tub Ring – Zoo Hypothesis

Butterflies and Hurricanes – Muse – Absolution

Le Sang des Bêtes – Joseph Kosma – Le Sang des Bêtes

Sound Check (Gravity) – Gorillaz – Gorillaz

Aubade – Kaada/Patton – Romances

Bydło – Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition

Sirènes – Frederic Chopin – The Snowflakes are Dancing (Tomita)

Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua – Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition

Pistolero – Juno Reactor – Shango

Warszawa – David Bowie – Low

Zombie Eaters – Faith No More – The Real Thing

Ur: Anthropomorphosis – Secret Chiefs 3 – Book of Horizons

Wildhoney – Tiamat – Wildhoney

Love is a Fist – Mr. Bungle – Mr. Bungle

Into the Hollow – Queens of the Stone Age – Era Vulgaris

Mescal Rite – Tomahawk – Anonymous

Weeping Wall – David Bowie – Low

Batucada – Mike Patton – A Perfect Place

A Shot of Crisis – Yasonori Mitsuda – Chrono Trigger

Zaar – Peter Gabriel – Passion

Sysyphus – Pink Floyd – Ummagumma

One Girl in All the World – The Wingless –

Cirrus Minor – Pink Floyd – More

Holy Vehm: Hypostasis of the Archons – Secret Chiefs 3 – Book of Horizons

Subterraneans – David Bowie – Low

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