Just a quick update. I've completely lost the thread on this story. A lot of the planning I had done for it kind of stopped working for me at some point and I took a break to work on something else for a while hoping that this one would clarify in my mind a little. Turns out I hate all the outlining I did for this story after this point so I'll have to rework the story.
In the meantime, I did the RR writeathon and have promised to finish that one at around 70-100k words or so. I know a bunch of you have already found your way there, but if you haven't go check it out.
The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.
In the meantime, this one is going on hiatus until I can figure out what I want to do with it. It might just get a full rewrite, but haven't decided yet. Either way it's going on hiatus, but not forever.
I appreciate you all sticking with it up to now anyway.
-Doom