A/N: I am so incredibly sorry it has taken me so long to update… and I'm even more sorry to say this is not an update either. But fear not! An update is coming… eventually. I'm working on it even now, but, well… I'm not even going to try to cough up an excuse.
The point is that this story will be continued; it will just take me some time. Expect an update by the end of next month, and after that… about every three weeks as opposed to every week as before.
Quite frankly, it's because I updated so quickly before that I'm having problems now. I put up each chapter as I wrote so when I ran into a roadblock I had nothing in reserve.
Anyway, thank you so very much to everyone who has taken the time to read this story (especially those who have reviewed, alerted, or faved), you guys are the reason I'll push myself through this writer's block.
And as a reward to anyone who has actually read this far, here's an excerpt that will appear in the next chapter (or possibly the one after):
…Ichigo climbed unsteadily to his feet and picked a likely direction to walk in. "You, shut up. And I thought you said you could get us out of there."
"I did!" the hollow answered, all affronted pride.
"Yeah," the orange-haired teen admitted easily, "but where the hell did you take us?" Ichigo paused in his steps and wiped at his eyes again before taking another look across the barren landscape.
"Hey, this place… it's familiar. I've definitely been here before." The longer his gaze lingered on the surroundings the more confidence he gained in his assertion, small snippets of memory trickled back through his mind, as if from a far off place. Nothing concrete, but enough to assure him that the pale hills were not a new sight.
"Oh, yeah?" his Other questioned nervously.
Ichigo stopped short, almost tripping over his own feet on the loose ground.
"What do you know?"
"Nothing!"
The teen narrowed his eyes and focused on trying to make thunder crash ominously in his inner world.