Author's Note:

To all of my readers: thank you.  For reading this, for offering your support, for critiquing my work to make me a better writer, for all of it.  Unfortunately, this is the end.  Fourth Impact, if you will.  I could just postpone this, hoping that maybe someday I could return to finish the story.  But it seems increasingly unlikely that such a joyous event will ever occur, and I owe it to you to provide some sort of closure.  I end the Dream in the regret of never being able to finish it properly.  No matter how much I try to prolong it, the end is in sight.  Thus ends the Dream.  Thus I must wake.  Until when next I write, goodbye.  Arigato.

--Omega