Sadly, this isn't a chapter this is just an update. TL;DR at the bottom.

I know it's been almost a year and I've been more or less radio silent on this story. I'm not abandoning it, and I'm sure as hell not allowing it to be adopted. But there isn't going to be a new chapter any time soon either. I'm really sorry to people who fell in love with this pairing and really like this story so far, but I have to just accept that I've fallen out of touch with the pace of the story.

The long and short of why I haven't written any new chapters is essentially this: I haven't felt motivated to really write anything for a large part of 2018 up until recently. I'm working on random short stories at the moment that I'm not taking as seriously as I did Chromatic Wings so I don't feel stressed to deliver an S-tier story. It has helped me get back into writing, but I'm still very flippant when it comes to sitting down and writing.

I really wanted to surprise everyone with a new chapter before the year was out, but I'm starting a new job next week and with that taking up most of my time I don't think I'd fit in working on this fic.

So what does that mean, what am I trying to say?

Well for a while now I've been meaning to rewrite Chromatic Wings because I really don't like how it all started. When I wrote chapter one I was just putting an idea out there and I wasn't concerning myself too much with specifics. To me as the author, that really shows. Over the months I've been silent I did successfully rewrite the first chapter, and now it feels more... real/believable. For the most part it's still the same in terms of the events, but the addition of more specifics changes up the way the chapters that follow it work in terms of progression. That means that chapters 2-7 need to also be rewritten in one way or another. So from here on I'm going to work on a rewrite.

I'm not going to give it a new title, or post a new story. When it's done I'll announce it through either a similar announcement or with the release of chapter eight. I know rewriting can be a trap and it can suck the fun out of a story, but with Riot FINALLY releasing an official map that isn't year(s) old concepts, I have a bunch of other things I have to change regardless. (Now if only they could give us a measure of distance for the love of Runeterra.) This rewrite will allow me to get back in touch with the flow of my story, and it will straighten out a lot of my plans that I wrote for the story.

I wish I could say it should be done by x time, but I can't estimate that as I've realized that I'm bad at putting deadlines on my hobbies.

Thank you to everyone that read Chromatic Wings up until this point, and whether or not you read the rewrite and continue on with the story as it comes out, I appreciate the follows, favorites, and reviews.

Xayah and Qrow are still my OTP, and if you want to see art I commissioned (which is now the story's cover) then just head over to

Twitter dot com/Suros_Six/status/975052178506244096 .

(For those unfamiliar, you replace dot with a period . and remove the spaces)

Happy Holidays, and once again, I'm sorry that I couldn't provide you guys with a new chapter.

TL;DR: I'm rewriting Chromatic Wings and it will replace the chapters posted on this story instead of a new story being posted. No ETA on it.