~Author's Notes~ special thanks for anyone who's been anticipating this release. i feel like i've kind of let myself down, and i'm going to explain why and how. firstly, the agony that finishing this issue caused me was unprecedented, but not unanticipated. i have been waiting for the other shoe to drop for roughly two weeks, and that shoe of course takes the form of loathing of creation. i wanted this chapter to look nice, and i sacrificed joy to achieve that. that's acceptable, but hard to repeat, so in the end it's bad. additionally, intrepid readers should be aware that i'm about to enter a roughly 2-week period of going to school again before winter break, so i probably won't release anything until then. the second, and most vital, way in which i have failed myself is in terms of story. there were more pages, and that was about it; if anything, the pace was far more irregular than ever before because i couldn't bring myself to meander around things. i won't even bother adressing that right now i don't really like the writing at all, but nobody likes their own stuff, and i still like a lot of the ideas that i have for things that could happen in the future. maybe someday i will look back on this and think, "ha, i was such a novice then, but now i am skilled in my field, and competent enough to compete in the open division of Salisbury Steak preparation." <~~go back now. its done.