Hey everyone, LightDusk16 here and surprise! I'm not dead!

I know it's pretty shocking since it's been, what, six months since I've done anything. Course maybe some of you (most) saw this coming if you were around when it took me a whole year to post chapter 4 + 5 (I think those are the right numbers heheheeh…)

Anyway, I know most of you aren't too happy that the new update is just an AN, but I feel like I owe it to you all for an explination about what's been going on.

And there's a lot to go over, so let's not waste anymore time!

First: So I had just finished outlining Episode 27 and was getting ready to actually write it when I was hit with a massive amount of writers block. While I had planned out what I wanted the episode to be about, putting it into actual words was just not working.

You can all thank Ironwood for that, apparently writing his character is a lot harder than I thought it would be.

Anyway, since I just couldn't figure out how to write the chapter exactly I decided to take a week or two break from the fic to figure things out. See if I could rid myself of my writers block and get back to writing.

Clearly that did not happen.

Thankfully my writers block finally left me around August, however by then college had started back up again and I needed to put my time into that.

Speaking of college…

Second: So once my writers block was clear I spent some time writing whenever my classes weren't too in my face. Which being a junior meant rarely, and since I work the weekends well...yeah not a lot of time to write.

Which is why when Winter break came along I thought I'd get some work done...but then COVID had to screw that up to.

No I did not get it luckily enough, instead the loan service in charge of giving us the loans I need to continue my enrollment decided to screw us over by not doing anything no matter what we did until literally a week before my second semester started.

And even then my schools financial aid services refused to use the loan to lay off the fall semester because the fall semester needed to be paid for first.

Yes, you read that right. And yes it does look and sound as stupid as you'd think.

I ended up missing two whole weeks of school before I could register literally the last day before registration would close. I was this close to getting kicked out of my school.

Obviously this was all pretty stressful for me, and writing a fanfic was the last thing on my mind. So I ended up doing nothing fic wise...until now at least.

This all leads me to the good news, I've managed to catch up in most of my classes and will be back to writing soon when my college work is less than overbearing.

Probably not any time before this month ends unless I get lucky, but there' will be a chapter in March!

I am once again very sorry that it took so long for me to inform you all about why the fic was taking so long to update. With any luck I'll be able to get back to writing soon and have the next couple chapters out before Volume 8 starts!

Oh, and don't worry. I'll be deleting this AN, and by extension this 'chapter,' and replacing it with the next episode as soon as it's finished!

Thank you all who decided to take the time to read this and I hope you all have a great day!

This has been LightDusk16, signing off!