Howdy all,

Firstly, sorry to leave you all dry like this. Originally, I originally only released for feedback, and man, I got a lot <img src= [https://forum.royalroadl.com/images/smilies/smile.png]">  You guys reading have been the biggest source of motivation to keep it going until now, so once more, thanks for reading <3

I'll still be writing the story and will post it here in full once it's completed. I just won't be posting new chapters indefinitely.

My reasons for stopping:

- I have anxiety and other medical issues going on that are stopping me from "getting in the groove", as it were. Hard to concentrate and edit, etc. 2 medical professionals have both separately recommended I stop posting to help out with my health for now. I'm not dying or anything, just multiple little things combining into one big mess.

- I originally never intended to do a release like this - I posted the initial chapters all in a block, without knowing it would end up on the front-page (I got here from a bookmark from about 3 years ago, so I never actually saw it until chapter 12ish Tongue [https://forum.royalroadl.com/images/smilies/tongue.png]). My expectations on lifetime readers was around 10, who would be the people I asked on the forums to 'proof read' it, with the full story dropping with promotion shortly after it finished. I tried to keep it going for the people who were reading, but I'm not currently in a state to do it.

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- I'm creatively dry at the moment - It feels like all my juice goes into making the re-writes on old chapters work. My original stuff is quite threadbare with some fight scenes being especially empty, so I often spend most of a day 'fixing' chapters. By the time I'm done, I don't want to look at words for a little while Tongue [https://forum.royalroadl.com/images/smilies/tongue.png]    I've only written another 1.5 chapters since I started posting, so hopefully this will allow me to focus on actually writing it and worry about everything else later.

- Having a lag time between posting and where I'm at in the story is hard - I've accidentally posted a few spoilers simply because my head is spinning carrying on two timelines (mine and the readers). Even in re-writing, I'm having to fix continuity issues that crop up because I'm mis-remembering where the story is at.

- The treatment I was expecting to help get me back into my groove hasn't been as effective as I'd hoped. Actually, it's caused even more issues while fixing some and was the final straw that broke the damned camel.

Hearing all of your feedback has helped me greatly, so hopefully you'll like the full story when it gets done <img src= [https://forum.royalroadl.com/images/smilies/smile.png]">

Cheers,

- Josh (aka WirlWind)

PS - I'm kind of writing this quickly, so feel free to ask me to clarify anything I've missed out on or explained poorly.