My Darling Readers:

I regret to inform you that Lost will not be continuing, the one thing I swore yould never happen. After a year of hellish school-work and my frequent bouts of illness, I've found that my inspiration and my desire to continue this story have all but vanished. In addition to this little problem, upon finishing the series- both the manga and anime versions- I was rather disappointed with how things turned out. To make matters worse, I've looked back on my previous works and can't help but shudder. What was I thinking? The characters' actions don't really make sense, their dialogue is all messed up, and frankly, I don't really know what to do next story-wise for anything.

However, unlike most writers who abandon their stories, I'll give you all a brief synopsis of what I had originally planned the ending to be like:

- Chrno gets his memories back and finally hooks up with Rosette, but I'm sure you all saw this coming.

- They seal away the major villain of the story- a demi-goddess of an alternate world. Why was Aion so easy to kill? Simple- Astarte got to him first. Her main powers stemmed from taking the "soul" or "life force" or whatever you want to call it from the victim- leaving them weak and a shell of their former selves. After taking this, she can take on all or part of the victim's form, making her body almost impossible to destroy, as she can replace damaged parts with pieces of other victims. Even if the body is destroyed, she can possess different people- which was originally going to happen to Rosette towards the end.

- Joshua is killed in front of Rosette's and Chrno's eyes for betraying Astarte.

That's basically the ending of the story in a nut-shell. The more I thought about it, the more I found it cliché and stupid, but by that time I had boxed myself in plot-wise.

Finally, I'm not really sure if I'm going to continue writing on at all- if I do, it'll probably be for different fandoms. Most of my writing these days comes from my role-playing on Gaia Online, a site that I discovered around the last time this story was updated. Thus, it played a rather large role in contributing to the end of my fanfiction career. I concentrate more on coming up with my own characters and ideas these days, instead of borrowing from other people. Look me up if you feel the urge- my name is the same on both sites, and I'd be glad to talk to you.

See you around!

- Adrienne Channing