This has been obvious for a while , so I'll just make it official: Unfortunately this story is going on a permanent hiatus, with no foreseen end time. Apologies to my 17 or so readers, who stuck with me despite my story being VERY rough and inconsistent, but it's obvious I cannot meaningfully work on it.

First reason is the lack of readership. I'll fully take responsibility for that one, with my extremely slow schedule (that became non-existent these last few months). Or perhaps it was due to my lack of skill. Regardless of the reason, the story isn't growing as much as I'd like and it seems to me interest in it is low.

Normally I wouldn't have a problem with continuing a story even without any readership, I've done it before, except for reason number two: I have recently been very busy. Some know that I am a freelancer who works from contract to contract, and it used to be that I had long breaks in between contracts where I could write. Unfortunately now I am having almost non-stop contracts, some more demanding than others, and am so busy I have very little time to write.

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The Blood I was Born In was planned to be an epic, with three books and a lot of story (we were in the middle of the 1st book, if you were wondering). I cannot cut the story short and still do it justice, like I did with my last book. But when I realized that I would barely be able to write a few chapters a year at my current pace, which means this story would only get finished a few years after the heat death of the universe, all my will to write just drained away.

Thank you to those wonderfully kind people that commented, and for the one review with very gentle and fair criticism of my story. And I am sorry to disappoint anyone still interested in how it ends. It is possible this story might continue, but very unlikely, and I am just making this official with this post to not expect any future updates, ever.