I don't know if anyone who used to read this is still around or not, but having looked at reviews from years ago, but years after the most recent update, I figured I'd say something.

Life got really hard during my senior year of high school (which was the time during which I wrote the last few chapters). I stopped writing for a little while, and when I did start writing again, I had nothing for this story. To be honest, with some of the things that happened for the next few years after that, I could probably have identified with Envy (in this story) even more. Maybe I would have even made the story better, and while re-reading it just now I even got a couple of vague ideas that could have added to the story.

But the vague ideas aren't enough. I re-read it in hopes that something would spark, because I haven't written much again. Through college, I barely wrote anything on any of the platforms I used, and right after I graduated (I started a year late because of something that happened, and then I had to take an extra semester because I couldn't handle 15 credits per semester) the pandemic hit and everyone knows that sort of screwed everything up. Even now, while I'm in a field I enjoy, it's not in my degree field and is very low paying, so it's been hard. So I hoped I could return to old stories to maybe help my mental health a little but I'm not sure that will be possible.

In my computer I found this story as well, and I had started a new entry, apparently. I don't know when I did so, it must have been years after the last actual update. I don't know if I will be able to return to this story. I don't want to make promises I can't keep. If anyone is still following, and I ever get an idea good enough, I might update the story again. But it's a very hard maybe.

I hope you all are finding your lives good, despite the crap that's been going on for the last few years. I'm sure all my original readers have changed so much, as I have, over the last 9 years since I last posted. So you may not even be active and seeing this anymore. I'm just trying to tie up loose ends. So, consider this a hiatus until further notice, but it may be permanent (I mean, it's been almost a decade, so that's a likely outcome).

I am still a fan of fullmetal alchemist so I wouldn't say all hope is lost, but still, if you're reading this, don't get your hopes up. I appreciate all the wonderful reviews I got from you all during my time actively posting. I love and appreciate you all, you're awesome. Have a great life. 3