NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

When I started this challenge, I had no idea how much I hated writing fast. If there is one benefit that came of the four chapters here (prolog+3), it's that I learned something important about myself.

But that's not the only benefit...

I'm not abandoning this story. From the beginning, I had a general ending in mind; and I thought I'd take the story to it's end and leave it for what it is. But what this became is not merely the bones of a story, but the muscles to wrap around another story I always planned to write. A better story. A story better for being married to this one. If stories are people, then what I'll work on eventually is the child born of He Who Is Left Behind and ...the other one, to remain unnamed. For now.

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I genuinely have anxiety at the thought of leaving this story up, so I'll probably take it down soon enough. I feel bad about cutting this short. I feel bad because I was raised by folk who shamed their kids for "quitting". But what's so wrong with quitting? Some things aren't worth doing. And even so, I got a reward for what I did (as I said above) and I don't want to waste the ending I had planned on a less-than-optimal telling. In the old fable of the tortoise and the hare, I'm the tortoise. I'm gonna go slow and give this story the nourishment it needs.

Then I'll be back, with something I'm proud of enough to publish.

To the single follow + favorite, thank you. To the viewers who enjoyed what this was, I'm glad to have posted something. And for anybody who got this far, if you're interested to see what goes on behind the scenes, or you enjoy worldbuilding, or you're a writer who wants company, or you just wanna lurk around and see what I'm up to, I have a Discord server for my works and for writers who wanna hang out and get better. At their art. At their life.

DM me if you'd like to join.

Until next time,

Clyde Godson