Hello, beautiful people who are still following this fic even though it seems like I abandoned it OVER A YEAR AGO.
It's time for an update.
Some of you already know this, but some of you may still not: A little less than two years ago, I got into a car accident. It was moderately bad and smacked me with a bunch of medical bills I didn't have the moolah to cover. Then, because the Universe Is A Dick (tm), my one and only laptop and only computer decided to fry itself. Between the medical debt and the student loan debt and the everything else... I essentially could not afford a new laptop, and it wasn't really a priority with everything else that went on.
But, slowly and surely, I have risen out of the mud like... mud Jesus? Mud Aphrodite? Imagine me on a seashell but coated in mud, I guess.
Point is: I'm back.
This fic is not abandoned. I will be continuing it, now that I finally have a shitty refurbished 2007-era laptop to call my own. It will take me a few weeks, so I ask that you bear with me after this announcement for a bit: I have to re-read the Alkahest and the Hedgehog's Dilemma again (mostly Alkahest lbr) to remember all the little snippets of plot I've left littered around like confetti and recall where exactly I was headed with both of them. As most of you know, the Alkahest is of an absolutely ridiculous length already, so this might take me a little while. Give me a few weeks to get my head on straight and smack the rust out of my typing fingers, and you'll have new chapters coming up at a (probably slow but) steady pace.
I'll be deleting this A/N when the new chapter is ready for posting, as I hate when my chapter numbers don't line up perfectly because I'm weird like that, but I just wanted to let everyone know that you were not a naive fool for waiting.
And thank you for your patience and most of all your appreciation of my fics. It means the world to me and this may sound stupid but it got me through a real tough time in my life, so I feel like I can't state it enough: Thank you. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for not giving up, thank you for re-reading, thank you for continuing to leave reviews even when I was very clearly not around. Thank you for liking my writing at all.
I'm really excited to be back.
