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Ah, here we are at the end.

I feel so heavyhearted; I can't believe that this will be my last update for a very long time to come.

Thank you for being with me through this journey. I sincerely couldn't have done it if it weren't for you asking me for updates and commenting on the chapters.

Afterglow has been hard to get through with spells of anxiety, demotivation, and loss in personal life. But I've found that we can move on, even with all the grief bundled up in our hearts. It remains there, never receding, but we take one step after another and make it. If not whole, but in parts; it's enough if the essential pieces of us make it. This book-series has been my lifeline, on certain days being the only reason I woke up. It isn't the best of works, but it kept me alive when I found no more reason to. It was my purpose. 

Thank you for being a part of it for years, even when the writing seemed slow, unnecessary, and exceedingly long. I couldn't have done it without your comments and detailed feedback that has taken a significant amount of your personal time. CerylH and sep_heap  I don't even know you in my personal life, but you've meant so much to me these past years. Thank you.

It's also been hard since I knew the ending. Although I did intend to leave Thieron heartbroken in Afterglow, I'd thought I could give him a slightly better ending in a fourth book. I hoped to give Thieron more reason to live. But I haven't made any progress on it. I don't know when and IF I'll get to do it anytime soon. So, sorry about leaving things this way for now. 

I hope this series has made some sense in whatever small way possible and hasn't made anyone uncomfortable. It has been on my mind for over 10 years, even though I seriously started writing only a few years back. I need to find a way forward from this now. If it's the fourth book in this series or a new one, I don't know. But I hope I give everyone a better ending, and I hope I can share it with you, whenever it is.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being with me all these years. <3

Take care <3

May the Gods sway you victorious. 

Se'ilr.

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