Author's Note for Lex Talionis

I know it's against the Rules to have Author's notes as chapters, but I have some things I have to say.

This story was hard for me to write because it does fall out of what is usually termed as my "Comfort Zone." But I wanted to see if I could do it, and once I get an idea into my head I have to get it out and onto the computer otherwise it will gnaw at me and bother me until Doomsday.

I am in NO WAY attacking those people that write Stayne differently than I do. I am in NO WAY saying in this tale that the way they write Stayne is wrong-it's called FAN-fiction for a reason.

Each fan has their own way of viewing and writing Stayne, and no one way is more correct than any other. Now, if someone wrote a fic that turned Stayne into a tie dye wearing hippie that went around giving everyone flowers and skipping through a meadow, I'd be a little dubious. (Not to mention that I'd wonder how Stayne became a hippie in the first place. :P

If I mistakenly offended anyone, I do apologize, as it was certainly not my intent. But this was a story that I simply had to write.

Ranguvar