THIS IS NOT A CANCELLATION NOTICE! Ok technically it is but not like your thinking. I have written everything, the entire story is down on my laptop just waiting to be posted, with a few issues.
I am a horrible planner. Back when this story was conceptualized (in 2016!) the entire thing was planned from exactly how Nafi would interact with the characters to the ending to where every character would end up.
Around chapter 3 this plan was thrown out the window, including the original ending. What I could salvage together of the old ending stuck until chapter 5 and then I changed it again. That held until chapter 8 when I changed it again. Then I actually wrote chapter 10, the chapter before the epilogue, and the ending that came out of my fingers was entirely different!
Normally, this wouldn't matter, except that as the ending changed so did the foreshadowing and the themes. If you read the chapters listed I'm almost certain you can tell when the ending changed.
So that means I have to rewrite everything currently published.
(That and the grammar and pacing is an absolute mess)
I feel horrible for just deleting what I have already published though, I put so much effort into getting this out of my head and down onto a page for you to read. So "Friends Are Useful" is no longer being written.
"Separation" However is entering the final draft.
"Friends Are Useful" was always supposed to be a placeholder title until I could come up with something better, except I never did. Now that the entire thing is written, I have an appropriate title.
When this note is published, the first chapter of "Separation" will be already out. The plot will follow much the same path, but I hope my writing style will have evolved over the years to make it an enjoyable reread.
As of this going up, the entire thing is written and when you find this the entire thing may be published as well.
See you there,
Multi.
(Guest Wolfliker, here is the answer to your question)