11/7/02 Status Report
(believe it or not)

Lydia: Oh my god! Oh my god! Look, guys! I'm still alive!

Link: Okay, okay, let's not scare the nice people. They've been so patient up to this point, let's not frighten them off. You're lucky enough they're still here!

Lydia: Oh, come on, Long Ears! How can you be so CALM?! We're going to start our adventure again! Aren't you excited? We've been kinda dormant for so damn long, and now we're gonna get to kick some more butt!

Link: Yes, we're all excited about the upcoming butt-kicking, but if you don't take a minute to breathe, you won't be able to say what we're here to say.

Lydia: *runs in circles*

Gordon: Forget it, man. Calming her at this point is a lost cause.

Link: No kidding. Do you want to do the honors, then?

Gordon: Don't mind if I do. *awkwardly clears his throat* Hello, Worlds Apart fans! It looks like all of your super-patient waiting with my sister is going to pay off really soon. She's gonna--

Lydia: OHNOYOUDON'T! I wanna say it! *shoves him into Link* I'm gonna start writing again!! Yay! *does a dumb little dance* Yeah... college has been really, really mean to me. It's been so hard for me to keep up. I've got a required Literature course and a math course, and I'm taking Japanese on the side. I'm easily getting a 4.0 in my Lit and Jap courses, but it takes a LOT of work on my part to keep up in math. And I'm still not doing very well. Why a college Pre-Calculus course is twice as hard as a high school Pre-Calculus course, I don't know. I'm having to absolutely kill myself just to pass the tests, let alone get a good grade. And I've got roommate problems in addition to that. I have-- ...*glances at the boys*.. ....Uh, guys? I don't see sympathetic looks on your faces. I need sympathetic looks.

Gordon: What should we do?

Lydia: Just stand there and look sad. Cry on Link's shoulder or something. Anyway, I have almost no friends up here except for a little group that has formed in my Japanese class. We sit together in class and go to anime club meetings together. That is really the highlight of my week. Otherwise, I'm working almost constantly on some damn assignment or paper or studying for some test. Being a grown-up kinda sucks.

Link: *pretends to wipe a tear away*

Lydia: But today I said to myself, "Damn it, Lyd, you have fans that are waiting! Make something happen! You know you want to." And I do want to! I still have big plans! Remember that stupid prophecy I kept hearing in my dreams? And my secret weapon? I've got a lot to wrap up! ...Since I was about fifteen, every night when I would go to bed, I'd daydream until I fell asleep. And what would I daydream about? Yes, I'd make up stories in my head about adventures in some world or another, and Hyrule was the setting for the majority of them. After about two years of doing this every single night (yeah, you read it. Two years, every single night), I had produced an entire story. It's the one you've been reading for so long now. It's taken almost that long to type it all up in such a way that gives you the best view possible of what I'm seeing in my mind. That's very important to me, because what I'm seeing in my mind is extremely cool. If what is in my mind was ever made into an anime... Wow. But that's not happening, so this is the best I can do. But just because I was on my computer making it into an actual story doesn't mean that my nightly daydreams stopped! Oh, no, even after I started writing Worlds Apart, every single night before falling asleep, I'd be thinking up additions and changes to it. The prophecy in my dreams? Thought that up one night before drifting off. I actually thought up the senario that the prophecy is referring to that night-- the actual worded prophecy to match it came about two nights later. I thought up the entire chant for my secret weapon in the same way. And the destruction of the Temple of Time? Same thing. This is how this story was born, and after doing all that work, why the hell should I stop now?!

Link: Hear, hear!!

Lydia: With all that said, let me remind you that Ganon-dork is still running free, messing with innocent Hyruleans! That has to stop, and it has to stop now!

Gordon: All right! We've got a world to save!

Lydia: *sits down at her computer* Gordon, go dig Link's sword out of my closet for him. Link, get me a Coke and a bag of chips. This may take a while.


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Again, thank you, everyone that has stuck with me through this weird time of my life. Believe me, I have as much fun writing the story as you do reading it, and I'm eager to get back to serious work. Considering how long my chapters end up being and how much work goes into giving them substance, don't expect to see Chapter 25 for a couple of weeks yet. Lest we forget, I'm still trying to pass Math.

May the Triforce be with you,
Miss Lydia