Before I get started, I'd like to issue a quick apology. I know I said I'd stick to my schedule when it came to uploading the afterword, but this time, real life really did get in the way. Good thing I got all the chapters uploaded before then, huh? Anyway, let me get on with it.

First of all, the reception to this fic. Again, I can't stress enough what the kind words and support I've gotten mean to me. In particular, I have to single out the following people for kudos.

Wolf-Pause: For taking the time out of their day to PM me their critiques of the story. I greatly appreciate that you let me know where I could improve here (for those curious, it was mostly about vagaries in the text, such as who is speaking at any given time, and the overuse of ellipses).

Entity of Spite and PupPupGo: For all the encouragement. It really warmed my heart when I saw your thoughts on the story.

SharpDragonKlaw: For being the very first review and being with this fic since the beginning!

Once again, thank you all.

Onto my next point. I mentioned back in Chapter 14 that the nightmares I gave the pups were based on other fics that I read here. Entity of Spite, thank you again for being OK with this. Honestly, I was more afraid of the possible backlash that might result from me being found out (either from me writing other people's fics as horrific nightmares, or if me taking ideas like that was unoriginal), but people mostly seem OK with it. Doing this wasn't saying anything about the quality of the fics in question, but it was more like "how might the pups react if they thought about being put through those kinds of situations?"

Speaking of ideas, that brings me to my next point: my future plans. I have some other fics in mind, but not very many. Honestly, I think I'd much prefer to write a handful of fics and do the best I can with them than write a bunch of different ones and have them be sloppily-executed. Here's what I have:

The pups filling Rubble in and taking care of him after a rescue gone bad leaves him bedridden and destroys his memory of the past 24 hours.

A prequel to Primary Fears consisting of a truncated telling of the morning after Rocky and Chase's nightmares.

A selection of friendshipping one-shots involving Marshall and Chase (Not all love has to be romantic when it comes to shipping. I like to think that this fic serves as proof positive of that!)

Not much, is it? But then again, see answer A. I don't intend to do any drama and/or tragedy fics on here. That category is largely covered in this fandom. And OC's and romance are out of the question. I wouldn't be able to do them properly, I don't think. I do have thoughts of an OC, but see answer B.

I intend to write a few fics and then vanish again. If I get any more ideas, maybe I'll return. I don't know. I can safely say that all of those ideas I mentioned are definites in some way, shape or form.

Oh yes, and none of them will be as long as Primary Fears. I'm hoping to keep them to half-as-long at most (PupPupGo, incidentally, said that it was a good thing I ended the fic where I did. I have to agree, since this fic's already super-long without a sequence of the pups visiting the amusement park I mentioned).

And that brings me to my last point: my schedule. Call it self-aggrandising, but I'm very happy with how that worked out for me. It lead to… complications when I updated too soon (if I was faster than 24 hours, the update wouldn't go out), but that aside, I'm very pleased that I didn't end up leaving another proverbial grave on this site (by that I mean stopping updating a fic and leaving it to wither and die). This is why I wrote all the chapters in advance. That way, I could guarantee myself that I could get the fic out there and completed, since they were all basically lined up and ready to go.

(rant) As a side note, when it comes to watching the show, fergawdsakes, DON'T. WATCH. THE UK. DUB. I say this as a Briton myself, but that dub of the show is just… cringey. There's not really another word for it. I will say that mercifully, Tracker's voice remains unchanged (knowing this dub, they'd probably make him Irish or something...), and a couple of the voices are… OK. Those are my only compliments, though. Chase inexplicably sounds like an adult (that's one deeply-voiced 7-year old…) and Ryder is the opposite in sounding too young (he's meant to be about 10, but his UK voice makes him sound about 7). But the worst out of all of them is Rubble. Three words: British Patrick Star. Like, why?! It makes him sound dim (he's young, not dumb)! Oh, and also, they made Everest Scottish.

...why…? (endrant)

And that's all I have to say. Once again, thank you for all the support you've all given me, and I'll see you when the next fic is written. But until then:

PyreFly out.