Dear friends.

It's been a year since I posted anything and I'm sorry for getting your hopes up with this update, only to dash them with what I'm going to say.

A lot has happened in these 12 months, I've graduated and immediately started a fulltime job, the last sucking any creativity and drive for writing out of me.

While I had made attempts to get back to writing I simply no longer possessed the concentration as the 3 hours of my-time I had after coming home and before going to sleep were usually spent in a daze in the warmth of my room in front of my PC.

Disillusioned with the state of life here and poor future prospects I decided to make probably the biggest gamble of my life and throw it all away in order to pursue a lifelong dream. I won't have an easy start in my new life, there will be a hell of a lot of adjustments required of me, but I believe the rewards, spiritual more than material, will be MUCH more than adequate. And IF I decide to return to my country at some point I will be in a much better position for a life deserving of a human being than I am presently.

Thus what I'm going to say next is not going to thrill anyone wanting an update anytime soon. As I'm moving my entire life out of my country, I can't foresee getting seriously back to writing for the remainder of the year at least. I may drop in with a short standalone or an occasional update. I don't believe you'll ever know just how much I regret leaving this fic in it's current condition, especially as the topic and the pairing are so close to my heart. Besides to knowing myself all too well the disappointment of getting invested in a story only for the author to abandon it and thus never getting to find out the ending.

Perhaps more important than that, I don't want to be one of those authors who just vanish without explanation, never to be heard of again, leaving the friends in uncertainty over their fate, that's why I'm posting this.

The seven years I spent as part of ffnet community were enriching. Of course it wasn't all sunshine and roses, but the good easily out-balanced the bad. I've met a lot of people, made friends, even the kind who have made a lasting impact on my life. I won't forget not a single one of you, from the friends who were with me even before I started posting here to the people who introduced themselves just recently.

Thus I would like to thank you all for being part of my life for so long and from getting to know people from so many different walks of life, backgrounds and even cultures, giving me a broader horizon than I would've had otherwise. I hope our acquaintance was at least as positive for you as well.

Until the next time,

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