Good day everybody!

Bad news, I'm burned out writing this story. Every day I come to the stat screen and glower over the dashboard numbers like some green eyed troll that wants to see the numbers go up, but this has been pretty bad for me emotionally and spiritually.

I have also tried shuffling this around to multiple publishers, but "derivative", "fan fiction" and "too much tell" have been the responses.

Kind of bummed, but I agree with their helpful criticisms. There is also the fact that the multiple POV changes just straight up stink for *you* the reader. It is not just one person's opinion, its a lot of people's (including mine)!

Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.

Thanks for reading this schlock for so long. The quality has gone down tremendously over the last couple months because I write these at 11pm on Monday nights.

So, one of two things will happen:

1) This story ends up like countless others and fades into the dying light like so many others on eternal hiatus.

2) I come back before a year passes and dump the rest of the story on here all at once (like all at once, a few tens of thousands of words). I'm signing off as soon as I post this update and taking a break from even thinking about writing though.

I'm aware I'm going to lose "momentum", ratings, and a lot of followers doing this, but the story is already a failure in that regard. If it is ever finished, it is because I want to see the resolution for myself.

Thanks for reading, sorry for taking a break. Hopefully see ya'll again in a year or less.

"Conrad"