I apologize for not updating for the past few months. I had a professional board, that I had to study for and decided to not even get on royal road to prevent me from getting distracted. While I did post it to the Book synopsis, that I would be doing so, I'm not sure how many of you all actually saw it. I passed my board, so intend to resume. I will be moving across country this summer, so that will hamper my ability to write some, but I also will be living by myself, no wife, no 3 year old, for the month of July so perhaps I can just about break even.

Two months is long enough for me to lose the feeling for the story, so as not to go off on some tangent or forget story lines or game metrics I decided to reread what I have written thus far.

First, of all thanks for reading this long and staying with me. Best guess is that it takes a good 14 or 15 hours to read through chapter 42. Second, I did notice alot of errors and things I need to add. I always knew that I am basically writing the frame work of the story and will need to flesh it out on a second draft, but I found my own story to be more choppy than I would like. But I would rather continue forward finishing out the story. Then as long as the story is worth it I will go back and make the characters better, correct errors, and do what I can to improve the flow. The lot of you are smart and can likely fill in the blanks... except for a whole missing chapter... more on that after this. If you are reading this then the errors are not enough to bother you, and I'm sure most of you would rather have the story finished, than for me to spend months improving different areas of my story by a tier or two.

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Also While rereading I discovered that my story jumped from chapter 35 to 36. Did not fully make sense. Went through my word document and found I have two Chapter 36s, So I added the first as Chapter 35.5. It is a full length chapter... Ooopsss, bet you all were like, 'that was quite sudden. Why was there no lead up.'

Finally, I should finish reading what I have tonight May 22nd, so will start writing new chapters shortly. Initially I thought my story would be alot more chapters, but now I would not be surprised If I'm a third of the way done. 100-120 chapters will be my target, which will still be a decently long story, likely taking a good 40 hrs to read. Of course if I do another draft I would not be surprised for that length to increase by 10 to 20 % since I will be feeling in gaps, and describing things better. 50 hrs should be good for my first story that I have put out into the world.

Thank you! hope you enjoy.