Hello,

I don't want to give anyone false hope that this is an update, but I have seen a few of your reviews and have recently been thinking a lot about what to do with this story. I don't like abandoning stories, I've had stories I've loved drop off in the middle of their plot and it feels terrible. I do want to share an update of sorts.

I posted this story back in 2015 as soon as the idea came to me (something I've very happy I don't do anymore). All I had was an idea that had been stuck in my head as soon as I put the first Divergent book down- I saw a glaring hole in VR's world (it completely excluded disabled and differently abled people!) and decided to put my own spin on the book. Like a lot of writers, the first few chapters came easily and quickly. After that initial manic phase, I realized I had no idea who my characters were or where they were going. So I took a beat and figured that out. Fast forward to 2018, I finally felt content with where this story was going and how much I had prewritten (except for some fine-tuning and an epilogue I was done).

Then, every single story I had written on my laptop and with no back up, it was all gone (You'll all be pleased to know that I now use 2 back-ups so that never happens again). It was absolutely heartbreaking and completely discouraging when I realized all of my time, effort, and work were all gone. The characters I'd become so attached to were all gone. Completely and absolutely gone. That combined with other personal struggles put me off of writing for years, I only started writing again within the last year or so.

I say all of that to say this: I have no clue what I'm going to do with this story. I love this story and I do feel that it deserves an ending, but even now I'm not sure about how to recreate my previous story (It could simply be hindsight bias but I had fallen in love with where my characters went and how they evolved). When I write it almost feels like I go on this journey with my characters, that I walk alongside them until their story is finished all I'm doing is telling you they've experienced, so in my head it feels like their story has been told and they've gotten their happy endings. The only problem was that no one had a chance to go on that journey with me. I'm not sure how to proceed, and I appreciate that even now people love this story.

I have gone back and forth about how to proceed, but for now I'm putting this story to rest. Maybe eventually I'll get to share their stories but for now I can't bring myself to finish this story when it doesn't feel genuine and this story deserves a genuine ending.

I want to thank everyone for their patience and kindness, but that's all I can offer at the moment.

Thank you.