Author's Note: Hello, everyone! I'm sorry if this update comes across as disappointing because it's not a new chapter, but rest assured! I'm continuing to stay diligent and making sure Viridi actually continues on a regular basis and I hope to have the next part up this week!
What this update IS, however, is a call for a helper. Someone that I can workshop this fanfiction with to make it turn out the best that it can, because while I'm vividly clear on quite a few plot points and what will happen over the course of this Fanfiction, namely some big setpiece moments as well as the climax, there's still other aspects that I HAVEN'T decided upon yet.
Chief among them is how I will handle the inevitable union between Lily and Severus. Rest assured, they are going to find their way to each other at some point in this story (albeit nowhere near as soon as they did in the previous incarnation, Tempus Vita). But as brought up in a recent review by Jaggerbone, will Lily find out the truth about Severus before or after they find each other? And to be honest, I still haven't decided. There's certain things from Tempus Vita that will be echoed in this story, but as I'm sure readers of both can see, the "leaking" of Sev's memories is not one of them.
What I'd like is a partner that enjoys the story enough and is willing to help me sort of muddle through the maelstrom that is my ideas for what to do about this and so much more. Obviously this is going to make you privy to certain spoilerific things that you'll naturally be expected to be my "Secret Keeper" for, hopefully not the untrustworthy kind like Peter Pettigrew. This isn't so much a call for a traditional beta, simply because I'm not as concerned for the conventions and general flow of how I write, but if you wanted to give a chapter a once-over just to make sure that everything looks solid, I wouldn't be opposed to that, but a beta reader isn't necessarily what I'm chasing here.
I'd like someone who is comfortable with the English language as that's the only one I can comfortably speak, so if it's your native language as well, or if you're at the very least extremely fluent, that's what I'm after.
If you're at all interested in helping me keep the ship moving steady for Tempus Vita, shoot me a private message here along with some thoughts you have about the story so far. I expect that I'll get a handful of people and I'm only looking for one, so if you aren't chosen, please don't take it personally!
I'll be deleting this chapter once I have someone chosen, and hopefully it will be a day or to for Chapter 19 of Viridi to be published! Please stay tuned!