Edited note on March 26th:
Yes, I'm alive, and no, the story is not dead. Currently I'm stuck (for over three weeks already) at the probably last scene of the next, fifth chapter. Once that is wrapped up, I'll clean up the chapter and it's off to beta. Hopefully, that will sooner (weekish) rather than later; but in any case, I thank you all for your patience.
With the new chapter, I'll include a short summary of the last three chapters. It really has been too long.
Since it also turned out to be far longer than I anticipated (again), this chapter will not be the great one at Helgrind, but rather a transitional chapter, although I hope I can make up the lack of real conflict with a nice Eragon/Arya moment at least partly.
I only hope I haven't lost all my readers till then ...
- SeriousScribble
