Interesting Notes from the Author:

New: Alright... new readers, if you wouldn't mind... Feel free to skip the chapters involving the tree, I tried to make something work that really didn't. I just wanted to show the character of Faith from a different perspective... oops. And... I wrote a lot below for my own benefit, and just I just use it for... making things confusing. Don't let this ... deter you from continuing on. Give it a few chapters... it might grow on you.

First off I will explain that I am new to writing fan-fiction, normally I just write original characters but since I've been suffering from a nasty case of writers block for the last few years, so I decided I would try this. So if you review just know that I consider constructive criticism very, very helpful.

I have taken quite a few liberties in this piece of work… Where should I start? I don't own anything, characters, fonts, locations, anything! This is totally not for profit; it's just something to keep my mind busy. If the characters sound uh, out-of-character please go ahead and tell me so, I won't mind (as long as you do it in a constructive non-hateful way…)

The points of view change, but there are only two: Faith and an original character… and maybe another… but there will never be more than two. It should be really easy to figure out. Another thing would be my tenses, I was never very good at figuring those out when I had to do writing in school (lots of red ink and revisions) but since I'm not getting graded here, you the reader will either hate me and discontinue reading or let me know and keep reading, whatever you choose is fine by me.

I should also touch on the weird perspective, when Faith is 'narrating' she is actually telling the story, to someone… so it should all be past tense… the italics are her thoughts at the time in the past… I just wanted to cut out the whole 'she said this, then he said that and then she did this ….' It might not work as well as I had hoped but it sure is fun to write from that perspective (in my own opinion).

Timeline you ask? Let's see… it starts about a year or two after 'Chosen' with plenty of flashbacks and a few vague explanations about the missing year(s). Does that make it 2004 sometime? I do NOT follow the comics whatsoever… but I did steal the castle… and all the information about the location of that damn castle was that it was located in and/or around the moors in Scotland… so I'm toying with geography (I did a bit of research … a bit … for some of the other locations) but most things should be at least 'feasible'.

Ships? Uh, Willow/Kennedy … Faith/Buffy (there but also not… tension! Yay!) Faith/Original Character (very, very, very small…)

Buffy's trip will not be elaborated here… just a minor explanation. I might write her story.

The Tree is a Pedunculate oak… Heh. It's a real damn tree!

Oh, and uhm… the names of the chapters… well, let's just see if you can figure that one out…