This is hard for me. Really, really hard. But I feel like I have to do it:

You've read right, I'm officially discontinuing this project. It sucks and it hurts me to see all the time invested just gone like that, but it feels like this story isn't being written by me anymore.

I have other projects, and with them, I am so filled with literary flair my writing when compared looks completely different. As you know, my style has evolved, and in here, it feels like I've just hit a plateau, unable to bring out what I've learned, the new vocabulary I've come across and even the techniques I've gotten better at using. This story, every single chapter in and out, feels like it's been written by a past version of me. The one that hadn't bettered themselves yet and was stuck with the flawed style they used to use so long ago.

So I've come to a decision: as of today, this story is no more. It'll still be up as a reminder for me to do better, but there won't be any more updates.

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I'll be moving on to greener pastures where I can continue to improve instead of wallowing in this mire of sticky, sticky mediocrity.

Of course, I won't be gone forever; maybe in a month or so I'll come back with a better story idea, a better plan for myself, and a more fluent ability of the pen(or in this case, the mouse and keyboard!) where I'll do better then. Actually, I already have a new idea in the works; just sitting in the back of my head, bubbling with so many cool things and abilities and feelings I was tempted on more than one occasion just to abruptly end this story and write that one instead, but I didn't and chose to persist. Now... I can persist no longer.

To the three favourites and six followers, thanks for doing what you did, and sorry for letting you down even after the fact...

To the person who gave me this cover: thank you for your support, your kindness was a fire that jumpstarted this whole project after my own and I hope you find true entertainment somewhere out there. Somewhere far better than this old story of mine...

A final cheers to everyone, and Ajax... out. I'm sorry I had to leave with a whimper instead of the bang I promised at the start of this whole fiasco...