"So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting, and they had to hire a new one."

-Narrator; from Spongebob

(A/N):

For those of you who were expecting a chapter, I'm sorry that all you got was this. But I'm hoping that you guys can show a bit of patience until the newest one gets posted, OK? Other than that, I thought I'd at least mention and ask a few things from you guys. Just to get some things off my chest, ya know?

First off, as I'm sure plenty of you already know, there's the massacre that happened at the Las Vegas concert. I'm hoping — praying — that a lot of you didn't have any family or friends down in Vegas when the shooting happened. For any of you who knew someone who was there, I'm hoping they made it out alive and well. Something like this, in my opinion at least, feels like it's happening way too often these days. It feels like there's always a big mass shooting every year, and it's getting out of hand. Hopefully something changes in the future, but I'm not holding my breath on it happening any time soon. Again, hopefully those of you who had family or friends visiting or living in Vegas didn't endure the shooting. Hopefully anyone who currently lives in Vegas didn't attend that concert. Having to go through something like that is something I cannot comprehend and I'm sorry for anyone who had to go through that.

Secondly, the story. I know it's only seven chapters in — technically six, since this is an author's note — but I'm starting to have those little bits of doubt pop in surrounding this story. I know there's plenty of room for development plot-wise and character-wise, but I feel like there's something about this story that isn't quite right and I can't put my finger on it. It could be because the previous chapters had an air of repetitiveness to it, or maybe my OCs weren't as interesting as I'd hope they'd be, or maybe I was displaying the canon characters wrong in some way. I don't know. There's something that seems off, and when I started rereading the previous chapters, I just couldn't understand how to make the story better. All of that could be in my head and I'm just overreacting! That would definitely be awesome. Unfortunately, that may not be the case. So I'm looking to you guys, dear reviewers, to give some feedback on what seems wrong about this story so far.

It's kind of me just hoping to get some constructive criticism and to, hopefully, ease the discomfort I'm feeling about this. I'm hoping to continue with this story, and it'd suck if there was a discontinuation in the future. I feel like Lani could do so much more, there could be a lot to explore in her background with her family and there could be countless possibilities with her, Ash, and the other SUN and MOON characters. I don't know...I'll leave it up to you guys.

As a side note, something that could hopefully lighten the mood, how many of you saw the trailers for ULTRA SUN and ULTRA MOON? I think it looks promising, since it seems like the games will be focusing on the Ultra Wormholes/Ultra Space, the Ultra Beasts, Necrozma, and Lunala/Solgaleo. To me, ULTRA SUN and ULTRA MOON look a lot better than what SUN and MOON had to offer. For anyone who played SUN/MOON know, the Ultra Beasts didn't have that big of a role (at least, it felt like the Ultra Beasts' role in the game was rushed), the Ultra Wormhole/Ultra Space wasn't heavily explored, and once the main storyline was finished and once the player captured all the Beasts, there wasn't much left to do. It looks like ULTRA SUN/ULTRA MOON gives the player more options on what to do — exploring Ultra Space and seeing where the Beasts live, for one. Not only that, but there's a new team that may become the main antagonists of the story (though I do feel like Necrozma will serve as an antagonist, as well). They seem WAY better than Team Skull.

I digress.

I'd say it's about time to wrap this up, don't you?

Stay safe, my friends. My thoughts and prayers are out to everyone from the Las Vegas incident.

Thanks a bunch.

Willow