Hello my lovely readers, if it is alright with you I would like to say a few words. First of all, thank you so much for making it this far. It was been a long and incredible journey. I am extremely proud not only of myself but of each and every one of you that stuck it out until the end; even with all of my hiatuses and breaks due to school and writer's block. A work that took years of effort has finally been completed; I wouldn't have made it without the support of your reviews, messages, and follows, to inspire me.

There's so much more I wanted to do with this story, many things were changed as it took on a life of its own, and many things were eliminated as well for the sake of maintaining the story's flow. I didn't feel comfortable completely changing what is canon in the movie (even though that's kinda the whole purpose of a fanfiction) so I apologize if things were a little stale at parts. Looking back I can already see many flaws and improvements that can be made but I've decided to let the story rest for awhile. I have already done a line-by-line edit and a comparison edit of all the chapters and have reuploaded them to have cleaner documents. Sorry I had you all looking at old stuff with so many errors in it.

I'm sure there will still be mistakes, ones that I can't see so feel free to point them out in a review or message. Some of you have given me enough praise to suggest being a real author and I will admit it is one of my goals, and having this story hit the 40k mark was a huge milestone for me. I look forward to writing my next story although I'm not entirely sure what it will be yet as a I already have a novel in progress along with a manga co-written by one of my best friends and countless of other pieces.

I must say though, it's kind of funny that this whole time I was publishing this story with the wrong title. I had changed it when I made the transition of publishing from DeviantArt [I'm SongofAmaya] to here. It was actually renamed to "Pure Birds" in honour of Kalena's name meaning but I forgot when I started uploading chapters. I didn't have the heart to change it after so long. And honestly I don't really have anything better as far as titles go haha.

As far as the ending goes I did set it up for a sequel. Yes, I do plan to hopefully write one day. It would take a lot of creativity and originality on my part since pirates aren't really my strong suit coupled with sci-fi I have a huge problem. My brain just doesn't think in those kind of mechanical terms, I'm more of a fantasy/magic person to be honest. But either way, there is hope for Kalena and her adventures as a pirate. If you have any ideas feel free to hit me up, I will be sure to credit you.

Also, I don't know if anyone noticed but I post "notices" on my profile, just little bulletins about what's going on in my life but they can help tell how active I am or how close I am to posting a new chapter or if I expect to be delayed. I feel that they take the edge off of waiting for updates just a little bit.

I know I had so much more I wanted to say, so many words and thoughts I needed to express but I guess this will have to do for now. Thank you again for all of your support. And a special shoutout to the one who kept me going with not all support and suggestions but with her fanfictions that inspired me in turn, . Oh and to Classof2014 for your blatant enthusiasm at my return, I found it touching. To those I didn't mention, know that I still appreciate you. Thank you.

Sincerely,

"Vasilia".

Disclaimer:

All characters save for Kalena Aderyn belong to their respectful owners. (c) Disney.