Hi everyone. It's been a while. I know that this is not the chapter that you were hoping for, and I apologize for that. I've been doing a lot of thinking recently, and as much as it pains me to say this, I've decided to put this up for adoption, or re-adoption I guess. I know that I might receive some angry pm's about my decision, and I totally get why you would do that, but please let me explain.

When I first adopted the story, I was much younger mentally than I am today. I had just begun to immerse myself into the world of fanfiction, and it excited me so much that it spurred me on to make a hasty decision the moment that I saw Auriansmule post the adoption notice. After I adopted the story, I posted the chapters that had already been written at random intervals, leaving authors notes that I now feel was me completely proclaiming myself as the sole creator of the story. But after I posted all of the pre-written chapters, I let the story stagnate for years, posting random chapters that were filled with empty promises of an upcoming update.

Then, when I was older and slightly more mature, I decided to try to rewrite the story to see if that could help bring me out of the writer's block that ensnared my mind.

It didn't work.

Now I have several stories that are a few years old at this point that I've done nothing with. I am not going to abandon those stories, though, as they were my own creation and I feel the need to see them through to the bitter end, whether that end be abandonment or completion. Not this story though. While I have ideas that I want to bring to life for this story, I just don't think that I am the right person to do so. That's why I'm letting one of you adopt it.

To those of you who want to adopt it, please don't make the hasty decision that I made all those years ago. If you can, write some chapters before you start to upload new content. If you want to hear the ideas that I have for this, and what my plans were for this story, I'll be more than happy to talk about them with you.

Before I leave you all with this information, I have one more thing that I would like to say: I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I haven't been a good author, and I'm sorry for leaving you all with the empty promises that I've made over the years. But most importantly, I want to apologize to Auriansmule for the course of action that I've taken with this.