Author's Note:
After a decade of work, this story is finally the way I've always envisioned it - including the brand new epilogue that will (hopefully) provide a lead-in to a sequel I've been planning that will join the characters from this story with the Queen of Swords/Highlander Crossover I've been working on since 2001 (not yet posted - stay tuned). Thanks for sticking with me thus far, and I hope to start posting more stories in the very near future.