Hi guys!

Long time no see, I know. I've been wanting to post some sort of resolution/explanation for a while now, and there are a couple reasons I haven't, which I'll get into shortly.

The first is that I always planned to have this finished before the end of last summer, but getting ready to go back to school sort of took over and I lost track of the story. When I looked back at it I figured 'well, I'll just write a couple quick chapters to resolve the end for everyone and get back to my own work.'

That obviously didn't happen. This is because a) art school literally consumed my life. No joke. I'm taking a program that focuses on comic arts actually, so storytelling is a big part of it and my own stories have demanded all my attention over the last few months, as they deserved. And b) when I decided I wanted to rewrite it I second guessed my decision to reveal exactly how I wanted it to end. I thought it might be better if I left it hanging, because I thought I'd have time to start writing again once things 'settled down.'

Things did not settle down.

But my school year is done in April, and I won't be taking any more classes until September after that. I thought about abandoning my plans to rewrite this story, but I believe that my storytelling skills have gotten a lot better since I wrote these chapters and I not only want to continue to develop (and fanfiction is a great, low-pressure way to do just that) but I also just really want to give you guys a really great, polished story that covers all the big holes I left in this one and gives every character a chance to shine. I dreadfully neglected characters like EDI, Joker, Thane, Vega, Cortez and Tali, who I feel deserve a lot more attention and development. Grunt, Jacob and Legion don't appear in it at all.

I also already have a bunch of new scenes and rewrites already done, it's just that they all happen to be concentrated in the ME2 section at the moment.

So basically, this is just a little explanation as to why I dropped off the face of the planet and what's going on with this story. I'm still very hesitant to post more chapters to this incarnation of the story, but I understand if you guys would like to see them now instead of waiting for me to get the new one out, which will probably start coming sometime in the next couple weeks, depending on how intense my final portfolio review gets. I promise the first parts of the new story will come out by the end of April.

If you'd like me to finish this story, please drop me a message/comment. I won't make any promises, but hearing from you is pretty much the only thing that has a chance of convincing me.

Thank you to everyone who supported this story and who plans on supporting the new one! Your compliments really spurred me on and gave me the confidence I needed to embrace art school and pursuing creativity as a career rather than just a hobby.

I hope to see you in the new comments section!

- K.