Notes from the Author

First, I wanted to thank all the people that left reviews for this story. I really loved writing it - and I'm glad I could spread some of that enjoyment to others (okay, yes, I do enjoy the ego-boost of positive feedback...) I'm also really happy where this story ended up.

Second, the first chapter of the sequel is up - go to my author profile; it's called "Dangerous and Deadly: Clash for the Stone"

Some special acknowledgements:

Clell - first, thanks for the recommendation. I think about 90% of the traffic the story got was from your original word of mouth. Seriously - my email all of a sudden blew up from emails, and I couldn't figure out why - it wasn't until someone told me about the Caer Azkaban site that I figured out why.

Daled - I want to apologize on the timing of one of the chapters. I didn't mean anything by it. You had just posted the "This story isn't canon because of these reasons"... right before I was posting a chapter detailing some of the explanations. It wasn't someone intentional or purposeful - I had the chapter planned for quite a bit, and it wasn't in response to your review.

SomeGuyFawkes - your review actually shaped quite a bit of the sequel, with me trying to get more zing into it. I disagree about this story, though - I really like the pacing and content. Difference of opinion, I guess.

Esran - Sorry you didn't like the life-debt. If it makes you feel better, I'm not really making the whole "life-debt" something typical or what you'd expect.

Zik - Don't judge the son too harshly just yet. I don't know if I'd say either of the Cartwrights are "good", but I'd definitely say they're not "bad". I'm shooting for flawed, realistic people. I don't want either of them to turn into super-wizards of utter pureness or absolute blackness.