Next time I post a tale where someone dies, I promise to
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.