Next time I post a tale where someone dies, I promise to
put in a spoiler button!

I want to reiterate my thanks to my fabulous betas, IolantheAlias, MetroChumpy, ScifiJoan, and MozartMaid. We had some spirited discussions about content and boxes of tissues and plot and other things, but it was always in the spirit of making the story better. An author can't ask for anything more than that.

Please let me know how you feel about the story now that it's finished, assuming you can shoehorn it into your Kerth activities.


Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.

- Stephen King, from On Writing