To the credit of Mari Makinami, the self-proclaimed Fifth Child, she stood her ground stoically for the tense seconds that followed her greeting. Even under the sweltering look that Asuka was throwing at her, her arm stayed outstretched and her face remained inviting, although, to be completely honest, the newcomer felt like her smile was starting to strain just a little bit.
She tried her hardest to keep it from showing, though. After all, first impressions were important.
"You're the one that was sent to replace me, aren't you?"
At least until she heard the almost palpable accusation in Asuka's first words. Mari withdrew her hand with a small sigh. It was obvious that no handshakes were going to be had that day.
"I guess I am. Although it looks like I won't be replacing anyone after that last showing," the Fifth Child shrugged casually, her smile weakening but not leaving her face. "Works for me. I didn't like the idea of taking anyone's place, anyway."
"Why don't you go ahead and pack your things, then?" Asuka pressed on, drawing closer until her scowl was right in front of Mari's face. "I'm not going to be dropping back down and letting you into my Unit-02, now or in the future."
"…Oookay? Why so mad?" The other girl blinked, slightly taken aback. Although she showed no signs of discomfort other than the disappearance of her smile. "I'm just here to help, you know? What with you guys taking a few bad hits lately and all that. I guess someone up there thought it would be a good idea to make sure there's someone ready to step up in case that… you know."
Mari elaborated on her last point by doing some explosion motions with her hands, complete with sound effects. Efforts that only yielded her another annoyed look from Asuka.
"That's not going to happen."
"Well, I sure hope not," Mari agreed, growing a carefree grin. "I mean, hearing that I was going to stay a backup was a huge relief, to be honest. I've never been in an actual EVA-sized combat situation before, you know? Not outside the sims, anyway."
"Oh, great." The Fifth Child watched as Asuka's face wrinkled even more, and her more scientifically curious side wondered whether the Second Child's animosity had an actual limit it could hit. "Another greenhorn."
"And what did you expect? Have you heard of any other kaiju attacks anywhere in the world? You know that stuff only happens in Japan," Mari shot back, sidestepping the fuming redhead and moving closer to the bed. "In any case, chances are I'll just end up being a backup for the Pilot of Unit-01, so your precious EVA is safe from my nefarious presence.
"And speaking of, this is the renowned Third Child, huh?"
"You know him?" Asuka questioned, her eyes hardening at the word 'renowned'.
"And who in NERV doesn't?" Mari replied cheekily, hovering over the sleeping young man. "It's not like he's the rookie that's leading the scoreboard in terms of Angel kills, right? A real outlier?"
'A real pain in the ass is what he is,' the Second Child scoffed, looking away with a small scowl. '…Figures he'd be the famous one. Damn showoff.'
"I thought he'd be more imposing, though. And more awake," Mari continued, the slight hint of disappointment that seeped into her words bringing Asuka's attention back to her. "What happened to him?"
"No one knows, some sort of weird coma," the redhead briefly grumped, looking away once more for a different reason. "He's been like that for a while now."
"Hmm… So he's kinda like the guy version of Sleeping Beauty, then?" Mari proposed, and Asuka had to admit that it was indeed an apt comparison. The redhead's attention was then brought back to the bed when she heard the tell-tale rustling of bedsheets, her blue eyes widening like plates when she spotted the other girl drawing closer to Shinji's face with a wide grin on her own. "…Hey, think he'll wake up if I give him a kiss?"
"W-What the hell are you doing?!"
Asuka's voice boomed across the small room, loud enough that she could have sworn it echoed. She also found herself hovering above Shinji's bed and about to push the invading girl off of it, despite having no recollection of having willed her body forward.
Mari Makinami, on the other hand, stared at her in perplexed silence for a second or two before she broke out into loud laughter. That didn't help matters much either, as far as the Asuka was concerned.
"Come on, I'm just kidding! You really took that seriously?" Mari pushed herself off the bed, her laughing slowly dying out into chuckles. She then raised her eyebrow at the other girl, her look turning curious. "Why are you getting so worked up about it, anyway?"
Asuka jumped off the bed and felt her face heat up at the loaded question. She then snarled and opened her mouth to tell the Fifth Child to mind her own damn business, but her best efforts ended up as little more than incoherent babbling because of a sudden lack of cooperation on the part of her tongue.
Asuka's face heated up even further.
"…Oh, I see. I guess I wasn't so off the mark before~" Mari rested her head on her hands and admired the reactions, sing-song words filling the room as a Cheshire smile spread all over her face. "So the mean and serious Second Child does have a heart somewhere in there. That's good to know!"
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Shinji Ikari stepped out of the farm and into the fresh outside to enjoy the lack of constant rain a little bit more than he had been able to, before. The young man figured that he couldn't really do much other than thinking about his future plans until Asuka showed up, anyway, and doing so with the feeling of grass between his fingers and a nice breeze hitting his face sounded like a better idea than doing so inside.
At least, until something struck the top of his head.
"...Again, Ace?" the Third Child grumbled, rubbing the affected part. "Can you please stop throwing things at my... head?"
Shinji fixated his gaze on the object that had hit him, quickly noting that it wasn't one of the wooden chips that Ace had used to attack him before, but rather a very small stone. Also, there seemed to be no actual sign of Ace being around (mainly due to the lack of immediate taunting comeback that Shinji would have expected out of her), so it truly seemed as if the Pilot was completely innocent this time. Curious, the Third Child picked the pebble up to examine it a little bit closer...
...and then let go of it almost instantly.
"Uwah! Hot!"
The little rock felt as if it had spent half an hour inside a full-power oven, and Shinji couldn't help but be a little surprised at that. Just when he thought he had grown accustomed to most of the things Asuka's brain could throw his way, there always seemed to be something new to see.
Another pebble landing a few steps away from him interrupted the young man's musings, followed by a second and then a third. All the while, Shinji's brain went through the causes that could have created such a blazing hot stone, not really liking the one that had made it to the forefront.
The Third Child liked it even less when he heard a loud rumbling in the distance.
"Is that... smoke?"
Shinji quickly identified a grey plume rising toward the sky, a very bad feeling forming in the pit of his stomach. And then, as if to confirm it, a mountain erupted from the distant ground, bellowing smoke, fire and ashes all around it.
"Come on!" Shinji screamed, breaking into a run in the opposite direction when he saw a few stray and bigger rocks strike the earth uncomfortably close. "You've gotta be kidding me!"
-O]|[O-
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST SAY?!"
Faster than she could blink, Mari found herself pinned to the wall by an irate redhead, barely managing to catch her hands with her own. In between doing her best to keep her face from being struck, though, the Fifth Child couldn't help but wonder that Asuka was pretty strong for someone that thin.
"T-That the Second Child has a very big heart and is not at all prone to violence?" Mari tried to defuse the situation, succeeding about as well as she had expected. "Don't you think you're overreacting just a little bit?"
"I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE THIRD, ALRIGHT?!" Asuka roared, failing to register any part of what she'd been told."WHY DON'T YOU MIND YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS, YOU FOUR-EYED BI-?!"
"What are you two doing?!" a third voice suddenly cut in, freezing Asuka into a halt. "Can't you see that this is a hospital?! If you have a problem with each other, take it outside!"
Slowly, Mari turned to regard the newcomer, just as the Second Child did the same: it was a hospital nurse. One of many, she supposed. And a woman that had already met Asuka, if the way the nurse's eyes narrowed was any indication.
"Sohryu-san again? For the love of-" The nurse let out a deep sigh, bringing a hand to grab the bridge of her nose. She then fixed Asuka with a frustrated look. "How many times do we have to tell you to keep your voice down? The patients need their rest!"
"But-... But I didn't-" Asuka let go of Mari as if she had been on fire, before frantically gesturing at her with a hand. "It's all her fault! She-"
"I don't care about any excuses, Sohryu-san, rules are rules," the nurse interrupted, further indicating that she was dangerously approaching the end of her patience. "We might have to forbid you from visiting if these constant altercations of yours keep up."
And at the older woman's words, Mari saw the Second Child's expression go from shock, to dread, to grief and finally to anger all in the span of three seconds. That was all before she balled her fists and stormed past the nurse, almost leaving a fiery trail in her wake.
"Fine, whatever! See what I care!"
Mari barely had enough time to brace herself before the door slammed shut.
-O]|[O-
"Hey, wait! I said wait a minute!" Mari's voice called out from behind her, hurried steps letting Asuka know that the annoying girl was in close pursuit. "Sorry that I made you angry!"
"Screw you."
"No thanks. And I didn't mean anything bad by what I said, honest! I just thought it would be a nice icebreaker, you know?" Mari fell into step beside Asuka, easily keeping up with the redhead's blazing pace. "Buuut I guess I stumbled into a sensitive subject, instead. Sorry again.
"But hey! I talked to the nurse lady, okay? Told her it was all my fault. Which it was. She'll overlook it this time."
"I don't care," the Second Child gruffly stated, although Mari didn't fail to catch a very slight relaxing of her shoulders. "Stop. Following me."
"Sorry, no can do. The Doc told me to 'go and ingratiate yourself with the other Pilots', you see?" the Fifth Child explained, smoothly transitioning into her carefree ways. "But since Bluebird disappeared on me and the Third's on sleep mode you're sort of the only one that's left right now."
"Well in that case, don't feel the need to stick to your orders. Go away and I'll just say that you and I had a great time if anyone asks."
"That's so nice of you! But I was looking forward to actually spending some time with the Wunderkind of NERV-Germany too, you know?" Mari replied, putting on a winning smile. "Thought I could learn a thing or two from you, Senpai!"
Asuka felt her hands clench and her teeth grind against each other at every single one of the Fifth Child's quirks, both verbal and physical. The new arrival truly had a talent for pissing her off that she had always thought exclusive to Shinji and Misato.
"Okay, first of all, don't call me that," the Second Child growled, moving to bar the other girl's way. "And to follow up on that, why on Earth would I want to be your friend?"
"Why not? Aren't you friends with the First Child?" the twin-tailed girl argued with a shrug, casually deflecting Asuka's hostility. "Besides, isn't it important to have people you can trust watching your back in combat?"
"You're on the bench. You're not going to see combat."
"Eh, I don't mean to jinx it but you never know when that might chan-" Mari suddenly gasped, her eyes catching sight of something down the hallway. She then grew a wide smile, the maroon-haired girl waving at whatever it was that she had seen. "Oh, hey! Bluebird, over here!"
Rolling her eyes at both Mari's non-existent attention span and at how blatantly she was now being ignored, Asuka turned around to look at what it was that had grabbed the other girl's eye: she quickly found it to be Rei Ayanami, probably on her way to visit the dormant Third Child. The bluenette regarded the newcomer with a curious look.
"Are you talking to me, Fifth Child?"
"No, I'm talking to the giant blue bird that's right behind you," Mari snarked with a deadpan look, only to feel the urge to palm her face when Rei shifted to look behind her. "Don't turn around! Of course I'm talking to you!"
"But 'Bluebird' is not my name," Rei argued, walking closer to the pair. "Why do you insist on calling me that?"
"I don't know. 'Cause Bluebirds are pretty flowers that are blue and your hair is also blue and kinda pretty?" the Fifth Child shrugged nonchalantly, waving off Rei's question. "Don't sweat the details.
"But forget about that! Listen, how about coming with the two of us? Sohryu-san here was going to tour me around the town, but we can always make this a group experience!"
"But I'm already familiar with the layout of the city," Rei tilted her head to the side curiously. "What would the purpose of that activity be?"
"And since when did I agree to any of that?" Asuka offered as well, her mood still on a steady sour.
"Wow, you two are a merry bunch, aren't you?" Mari mumbled to herself with a roll of her eyes. She then threw a fist up in the air. "Come on, it's an excuse for fun! We can get to know each other better before the Doc inevitably throws us into the sims, and then we'll grab some dinner together! Bonding time!"
"Hellish time, more like," Asuka scoffed and propped herself against the wall. "Besides, we're cooped up inside the Geofront for the time being, four-eyes, so it's not like we could leave even if we wanted to. Such a shame, really."
"Huh? The Doc didn't tell me anything about that. You sure it wasn't just a temporary measure?"
"I don't know, and I don't care. But it's not like there's any way to know for sure, is there? Unless you want to go ahead and bother Akagi again, that is. I'm sure she'll love that." The Second Child rolled her eyes, spitting the name out as if it was a bad tasting appetizer. She then sent a mocking look at the twin-tailed girl. "So I think I'll just stay and do something else for the day, instead. Have fun getting lost by yourself."
Grinning from ear to ear, Asuka Langley-Sohryu relaxed against the wall and waited for the annoying greenhorn to finally be on her way. Maybe she would even take Ayanami with her and make doubly sure that no one would bother her for the rest of the day. Yes, her success at the synch-tests and the promise of some peace and quiet could truly make this her best day in weeks.
A sedate smile appeared on Asuka's face at the thought, but her fantasy of a little slice of Paradise was rudely interrupted when a phone began to ring: hers, to be exact. Asuka's expression promptly shifting into an annoyed scowl and muttering something that Doctor Akagi wouldn't have approved of, the Second Child fished for the device and raised it to her ear.
"What now?" Asuka sharply spoke into it.
"A-Asuka? Is that you?"
The redhead's eyes widened. She knew that voice, and it wasn't the one she had been expecting to hear.
"Hikari?!"
"It is you!" Hikari Horaki cheered happily, as if a heavy weight had just been lifted from her shoulders. The calm lasted for but a fleeting second, however. "Where have you been?! Do you have any idea how worried I was?!"
Asuka cringed as she pulled the phone away from her ear. As relieved as she was at not having to do yet another unscheduled test, placating an angry Hikari hadn't been on her list of preferred pastimes, either.
"Ack! Sorry, sorry, don't yell! It's just..." Asuka quickly spoke, trying to figure out how she could explain herself without giving away any confidential information. "Some… stuff happened in the last battle. I'm sort of living in the Geofront now because of it."
"…I guess that's why no one would answer at Katsuragi-san's…" Hikari reasoned after a short pause, before going back on the offensive. "And couldn't you have given someone a call?! I was starting to think that you were seriously hurt or… or worse until Toji told me that you were fine!"
"It just didn't cross my mind, alright? I've been busy lately and-" Asuka started to defend herself before she cut herself off, grabbing onto a small detail. "…Wait, 'Toji'? Didn't you Japanese only do the first name thing when-"
"Don't change the subject!" Hikari demanded, forcing the redhead's phone away from her ear again.
It was at this time that Asuka decided a change in strategy was required and, after a long and hard fought battle in which she focused on nothing else, the Second Child's wile eventually succeeded in calming down her best friend for the time being. There would still be hell to pay if and when she managed to get back to school and needed to do the same thing again both on Hikari's home turf and in person, but she could confidently say that her ears were safe for a whole day, maybe a few more.
"Asuka, listen: I need to talk to you, okay? Can you meet this afternoon?"
…Or not. It looked as if Hikari wanted to address the latter sooner than the Second Child was expecting. Not something that she was looking to deal with after the ups and downs that the day had already offered her.
Then again, Asuka did have one very good excuse available to her. Not even a bad kind of excuse, really.
"Look, Hikari, I'd love to but I wasn't allowed outside the last time I tried. And I really don't know when that's going to-"
"They say it's fine!"
"…Huh?"
Asuka turned towards the one that had spoken and found Makinami walking towards her, Mister Casual and Mister Monotone in tow. The redhead narrowed her eyes at her Section-2 security detail, her mind quickly trying to piece all the facts together and figuring out how it impacted her chances of getting an earful today.
But the Fifth Child was faster on the uptake than she was.
"These two gentlemen say that they'll escort us wherever we want to go. That should be the last snag out of the way, right?" Mari grinned and motioned at the two men, before she stepped forward and effortlessly swiped the phone from the hand of a still stunned Asuka. "Let's ask your friend if she wants to come with us!"
"H-Hey!" Asuka promptly protested, but her efforts to take back the phone were stonewalled by Mari twisting and turning out of her reach. "Give that back!"
"Hiya! I'm Mari!" the Fifth Child cheerily greeted into the receiver, even managing to find the time to grab onto Ayanami's arm so that she wouldn't walk away on her own. "Where do you want to meet?"
-O]|[O-
"I expect that you are fully aware as to the nature of this meeting, Doctor Akagi."
"Indeed. The Second Child's sudden recovery took us all by surprise, myself, most of all," Ritsuko agreed, punctuating the latter part of her speech with a grunt. "But it is of no concern. I'll have the EVAs refitted to adapt to the newly arrived UN demands before the end of this work-shift."
The Commander's gaze rested briefly on the folder that had been delivered to his office mere minutes ago, a document containing a myriad direct orders and directives for NERV to follow in the aftermath of the Fifteenth Angel, most of which, in true bureaucratic fashion, were either unimportant or completely disregardable.
Except for one: the immediate unfreezing of Evangelion Unit-01 and the assignment of the Fifth Child as its interim Pilot, citing a worrying lack of proper asset usage during the last battle.
Commander Ikari had to keep himself from scowling. After all, the thinly disguised UN demands could as well have been referred to as SEELE demands. The old men had obviously smelled blood in the water, and promptly moved to improve their position.
Not that Gendo Ikari was going to let them into his kingdom easily.
"Belay that, the Fifth Child will remain a backup for Unit-02," the Commander ordered, his eyes moving to a different, worryingly thin folder, that had accompanied the Fifth Child's entrance into HQ. "We will not endanger Unit-01 on SEELE's whims."
"Impossible. I'm afraid that synch and simulation tests are already scheduled for the Fifth Child, Commander."
The elder Ikari paused, eyes narrowing as he turned to regard Ritsuko. Was that spitefulness he had heard in the woman's voice?
"Then cancel them. What possessed you to even consider going ahead with these orders, Doctor?"
"I don't know. Perhaps it was Yui's ghost that took over me, telling me that she would enjoy some different company."
The Commander's second, longer pause was accompanied by a blink of his eyes, a gesture that hid behind his eternally opaque glasses. What the lenses couldn't conceal was the sudden frown that marred the man's forehead, however.
"...What did you say?"
And then, a smirk found its way to Ritsuko's face, the Head of Project-E discarding any further attempt at subterfuge and properly squaring off against the Supreme Commander of NERV. A man that found himself further taken aback by his subordinate's suddenly fearless attitude.
"The tests will continue as scheduled, and the Fifth Child will become Unit-01's designated Pilot," Ritsuko loudly repeated, completely uncowed. "That is what I said."
The fall of a pin could have been clearly heard in the silence that followed and, slowly, Gendo Ikari unfurled his hands and gently set them against the table. His frown deepened and his lips thinned into a tight line...
...but it was not the Commander who spoke next.
"...You overstep your boundaries, Doctor."
Ritsuko glanced at Ikari's aging second in command, answering his cold words with a frigid wind of her own.
"I'm glad you can at least see the obvious. But the real question is what you will do about it, if anything at all?" the woman spoke, her words almost taunting. "You're welcome to try, of course, but I'm afraid young Ibuki is still too inexperienced to take proper care of the MAGI and the EVAs, as I do. Then again, a rookie mistake at a critical juncture would be a hilarious way of finding all of your best laid plans upturned, wouldn't it?"
Sub-Commander Fuyutsuki grunted, but offered no actual retort. He merely shifted his eyes to look at Gendo, trying to anticipate how the younger man would handle the current situation.
And what he saw was a very minute shake of the Commander's fingers, although it was hard to tell whether it was born out of anger or concern.
"…Am I to take this as your official withdrawal from our scenario, Doctor?" Ikari finally spoke through almost gritted teeth.
"From your scenario," Ritsuko replied, her prior ice ousted by barely bridled indignant heat. "And I'm honestly surprised that you yet feel the need to ask."
"Perhaps I simply believe that this situation may still be mended. Should you share your thoughts, we could-"
"'Mended'?! I will hear none of that!" Ritsuko furiously interrupted Gendo's attempt at diplomacy. "I am done following in Mother's footsteps! I will not be your toy anymore, to be discarded at a moment's notice, and I won't allow myself to stay within a phantom's shadow, either! Not when I have another choice."
Ritsuko's accusations boomed throughout the gargantuan office, and out of the corner of his eye the Sub-Commander thought he saw Ikari flinch slightly, as if he had been struck. The unexpected mirage was further reinforced when the Supreme Commander of NERV took an extra second to respond.
"...You speak of choices, but you're a fool if you truly believe SEELE to be deserving of your trust."
"In that you're both akin, but that is no longer any of your concern," Ritsuko spat out with enough venom to rival a cobra, and this time Fuyutsuki certainly saw the younger man wince. Unlike the old Professor, however, Ritsuko seemed to think nothing of it, turning to leave with a snarl. "And if that will be all, I have other, more pressing business to attend to. I'm sure you do as well, Commander."
Akagi's heels began to clack away into the distance, and Fuyutsuki saw Gendo's right hand twitch and make to reach into his pocket before going still. The man's body had also gone stiff, and it seemed for a fleeting moment as if a battle of wills was being fought within him.
Until, ultimately, the Commander slammed his hands on the table and stood up.
"Ritsuko!" he called out, a tinge of hurt and betrayal making it into his words.
But the Head of Project-E didn't stop until she reached the door, never even glancing back in his direction. Then, with a final slam, the door shut behind Ritsuko Akagi.
And Gendo Ikari collapsed into his seat, a deep breath escaping him. He then slowly brought his hands to his face, massaging his temple as if he was trying to rub a painful migraine away while, all throughout, his Sub-Commander watched him intently.
"...I told you so."
"Not... now. Sensei." The elder Ikari breathed out, making it quite clear that the short exchange had taken a sizeable emotional toll on him.
For all of their joint plotting, however, Kozo Fuyutsuki found that he had very little pity to spare for the man. He could afford him the time to settle back into a semblance of normalcy, though.
"So Akagi has turned," the Professor eventually stated, bringing the conversation back to the most recent and critical development. "Not entirely unexpected, although I honestly can't imagine what SEELE could have offered to entice-"
"...It's not the old men."
"...Hmm?"
"For all of her talents, Akagi is still a terrible liar," Gendo elaborated, folding his hands back into his usual stance. "Whoever's backing her little mutiny is not on SEELE's payroll."
"I see. Is finding out who her benefactors are why you refrained from joining her fate with agent Kaji's, then? Or did you simply not have the heart to pull the trigger?"
"..."
"...Be that as it may, a third army entering the battlefield is a worrying development," Fuyutsuki continued when the lack of a forthcoming answer became obvious. "It would certainly appear that the latest events have begun to veer out of control," the Sub-Commander sighed deeply, pinching the bridge of his nose. "I wonder... is the house of cards about to collapse, Ikari?"
"...Not yet, Sensei," Gendo reassured him, now fully back into his Commander's persona. "We are not defeated yet."
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Ritsuko Akagi collapsed against the back wall of the elevator the very second its protective doors closed before her. Her heart was beating wildly and her need for oxygen was satisfied in ragged breaths, shaky legs barely managing to hold up her profusely sweating body.
Ritsuko remained like that for a fair while until, in her ear, a somewhat distorted voice finally praised her.
"Good work, Doctor. You played your part magnificently," the voice spoke, sounding satisfied. "Now, if you could see to the proper delivery of the containers we spoke about?"
"Can you just give me a second?" Ritsuko shot back, annoyed at the urgency. "I think I just saw my life flash before my eyes."
"Come now, we assured you that you would be safe, didn't we?" a hearty chuckle answered the woman's complaint, causing her to narrow her eyes. "Your concern was misplaced from the very beginning."
"Well, excuse me if I'm not fully trusting of disembodied voices."
"Fair enough," the voice conceded, ever good-humoured. "But there's no rest for the wicked, Doctor. You would do well to grow accustomed to this amount of physical and... emotional exertion."
The blonde woman grunted, but refrained from offering a witty comeback. She focused her attention on herself, instead, noticing how her legs now seemed capable of supporting her weight once again, and how the rest of her body didn't feel like jelly anymore.
Furthermore, Ritsuko Akagi felt a feeling of pride and accomplishment swell within her, now that the better part of her brain was done fearing for her life. After all, she had spoken her mind to Gendo Ikari and lifted the yoke that had for the longest time been around her neck, taking the first major step on her own path.
And regardless of where that path ended up taking her, this act of rebellion alone was already more than she would have dared dream of six months ago.
"...Right. This is nothing," Doctor Akagi agreed and pushed herself onto her feet, feeling how the invigorating sensation reached very inch of her body. By the time the elevator's ding notified its arrival at her destination floor, the Head of Project-E was already busy at work with her trusty PDA. "I'll have your deliveries sorted before the day is out."
"Marvellous."
A/N: And that makes 10 chapters of An Insider's Look! This is so far my fastest growing story ever, and I wanted to take the time to thank all the people who have been following, favouriting and more than anything else, reviewing. Even a single line with your thoughts means a lot to someone who has been fighting with his keyboard and the English language in the name of your enjoyment, so never stop doing it!
See you next week! ;)