End Notes:
So there you have it. It took me a long, long time to finish but I did it.
I want to thank each and every one of you who have read this story, and especially all of you who have left me comments, either at Destined, via email or PM, or on FFN. This story held a lot of firsts for me and it is so completely different from any other fic I've ever written in the past, so I can't tell you how much your comments meant to me. There are a few people in particular that I want to mention here: specialfrog, Mafer, Bright Eyes, Broni, and cludwig. You guys have pretty much been following this story since I first started posting it, and sometimes I read your comments and I feel like I have my own personal cheerleading section. So thank you. You ladies are stars :)
I also owe Greer, Mafer and Claire very special thanks here because they listen to me bitch and whine and complain about my writer's block when I need to vent. Greer, in particular, got an earful about several chapters -- the very latest being several crises that came up as I was putting the finishing touches on the epilogue.
It's still hard for me to believe that I actually managed to finish this off (it's funny to look back on my very first outline that had me finishing this up in under thirty chapters)... I know that several of you had some requests to see the proposal, but I couldn't quite fit it in with how I wanted to write the epilogue. I've had the final scene from the last two chapters, as well as the general idea/premise for the epilogue, planned since before I even started writing this fic. It was the entire reason I chose to set the scenario up the way that I did, and I didn't want to go back on that plan. I promise I will include your proposal, as well as elaborate on a lot of what I've introduced in the epilogue, somewhere in the sequel, but that won't be coming up for a little while now. My next projects involve getting back to work on In Repair and Inside These Walls, along with a few shorter pet projects before I get involved with my next new epic. I'm shooting to finish off all my other projects by the end of winter, so hopefully I'll be ready to start up the sequel by next spring before I gear up to move and start grad school.
Anyway thank you all once again. Whether you left me one quick message or you were here for every single chapter, your encouragement has meant a great deal to me. Thanks for being here. I hope you've enjoyed reading this half as much as I enjoyed creating this universe and writing it out.
xx,
spyglass/inelastic