Hello to anyone still reading this story or checking it for updates. I can't believe it has been six years since this story began, and yet I have barely gotten into the story. I want to offer my sincerest apologies to those of you that stuck with this story for so long without any pay-off. While I have been rewriting this story, it has become evident that it would be too much work to change the existing chapters to align with the new direction of the story. It seems that about half the chapters need to be scrapped, and the ones that don't need to be scrapped do need to be rewritten.

I may post the rewritten version under a new story name in the future, but no one should count on that. Thank you all again for sticking with me.