Hi everyone!

I am working on the chapter, I promise and it's well on its way. With everything going on it has been a little slow going. It won't be another six months before I update, I promise. I know you all came for a chapter, so I'll make this quick and get back to writing.

I love writing. I've wanted to be a writer since I was in the sixth grade. I don't appreciate people taking my work and basically rewriting it and claiming it as their own. All of my work belongs to that of the respective people who legitimately had something to do with the original creation. I use this format because I love these characters and I believe this helps me grow as a writer by hearing how I can improve and what people like about my works.

Please, please, please, do not steal my work and claim it as yours. If I inspire you to write something, wonderful! I bet it's going to be fantastic! But if you write something based on my works, keeping entire conversations almost verbatim and not give me any sort of credit for my work, I'm gonna get heated. This goes the same for the minor plot points of this story that was copied. It was literally the first three chapters rewritten with some minor details changed and an honestly interesting twist to Sakura's personality and circumstances - I just can't believe that someone would ruin the honest potential that story has by mimicking my work. Plot point after plot point.

Now, I understand, my story idea isn't all that original to begin with, so when I was approached about possible plagiarism of the idea, I was hesitant to believe it. But it's so close to the same - despite the fact that conversations between their version of Salma and my Salma when she first meets Sakura is almost entirely verbatim to my work - with Sakura waking up after initially meeting the founders after scaling the mountain to find them overlooking it, to her passing out and waking up in a medical building, to her going to shower only to walk out and have the girl mistake her for a boy as well, rush off to get her girl clothes...

Ugh, thinking about it makes me so angry.

There is more, and I tried so hard to point out the differences to assure myself someone was just using an idea that I happened to of also used, but when the conversations were the same - even structured the same! Word for word, too! I couldn't anymore. I read all three of the chapters and reached out to the author a few days ago to see if she would talk to me, maybe it's all a misunderstanding and I just wrote those chapters so predictably that anyone could have accidentally done that, I don't know.

I would just like to ask, in the future, if anyone is going to rewrite my work - and trust me, I don't mind despite what this message gives off - I would appreciate some credit. One day, probably forever from now, I want to write actual stories and publish them and do that with my life and I hope one day I will be able to come on here and read people's versions of my stories, my characters, my events. I want to see people transform them with their own talent. I just want the acknowledgment that being the creature of at least part of that gives me. I work so hard on these stories and I hope that everyone enjoys them to their fullest.

I know this is silly, but I'm so heated, I had to say something.

Have a wonderful day, everyone! I am going back to writing for this! If you are inspired by my work to make anything - short stories, long stories, fanart, whatever - I would love to see and read them. I will even give you shoutouts on my page with links to it! I want you all to be inspired because you inspire me!

I'm sorry for the rant, I'm going back into my cave to work on the next chapter to something!

Bye~!

Winged Lady Colette