Hello, everyone. I'm here to give you all an update on this story.

First of all, I'd like to thank all of those who've stayed with this fic ever since it was published, not to mention I owe you guys a big apology. Seriously, you people had to deal with my stupid, ridiculous update pattern, and had to wait so long for new chapters ^ ^; So thank you so, so much for that, and I'm terribly sorry!

Alright, here's the news. Now...

THIS IS NOT DEAD. NONE OF MY STORIES ARE, IN FACT.

See, I've been going through the phase. Yes, I speak of that phase, the one in which inspiration is so hard to come by... Unfortunately, this phase struck my mind over the summer, and while I've been slowly working on the next chapter, I simply couldn't be excited, or at least satisfied with what I was writing.

I assure you, all of the reviews and faves/story alerts are very, very well appreciated. That, and there's school...damn school. I am thankful for its efforts to make me smarter and strengthen my goals for future careers, but must it take up so much of my free time? *sigh* I really hope you all understand this.

As for the next chapter...I think that now I am totally pumped to work on it. Pretty much what happened is that my brother and I played Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 for a while, and it kinda motivated me to start working on this series xD Halo Reach kinda helped as well (but for some reason I grew bored very quickly when I started playing it).

There's definitely going to be some editing going on. I've given a lot of thought into my analysis as I read this, pretty much asking myself questions and whatnot. I can't begin to tell you all how much I love this story. There's no way I'll give up on this, I assure you.

ALSO!

I have started another Halo fic. It's set in Halo Wars, because even though it was an RTS game, I absolutely adored the story and its characters (especially Forge and Cutter...freakin awesome old men). But there's about above 50% chance of it being a romance thing...something I'm looking forward to, actually. Don't worry, there'll be action too. There's always action. It's not posted yet, in fact, it might be posted on another account, if I decide to start another one. Check my profile to see if I actually choose to do so.

This story, however, will not be a romance. It's 100% adventure/action.

But anyway, that's pretty much the news. I'll be working on My Unknown Loss, as well as my other fanfics, but be warned, I have no idea when they'll be updated.

Now that I've explained myself, hopefully you guys won't kill me ^ ^; I feel much safer now! xD

Again, thank you all so much! I'm truly sorry!

Love you guys :)