First, let me start off with an apology. I am sorry for the delay in this. I've been running from this for a while, but only now have I stopped to face my mistake. I have excuses, plenty of them, but it would be bullshit for me to say that they were the only cause of me dropping the story. Even, with the family troubles and busy schedule, I could have made time for the book. I could have done more.

Instead I lost steam. The crystal dungeon was my first story and it was born out of a rather foolish moment of excitement. I even typed out the first chapter on my phone, because i was so captivated by the thought of me being an author. I've always been two things, a reader and a dreamer. I've never faced something I had to knuckle down and really work for before. That was my mistake. After my initial surge of excitement, I lost touch with the story.

Over the past year I've been practicing, working on my writing. I've been working to learn how to build a plot and develop characters in short stories, I've been practicing different elements and styles, writing out the first few chapters of a new idea every week or so. Most of all however, I've been working on my responsibility.

Now, I think I'm ready to do this for real. I think I'm ready to be an author. I have three stories that I wish to tell. One of which you already know: The Crystal Dungeon. My style has changed since I started writing and, looking back on my work, even the scant progress I made with this idea needs a great deal of work.

The second Is the one I will tackle immediately, from this day onward: Blaze. It is the story of a newborn fire elemental. as I publish this, I'm putting up the prologue for approval. If all goes well, I'll have the first true chapter up in a day, shortly followed by the second sometime later this week. With July 4th on Tuesday, I can't quite tell its exact E.T.A. but I will be publishing it.

The third is a story I'm not yet ready to tell. It's an idea that's long since been a pipe dream of mine. I even made a fairly succesful run on a second account writing a fraction of my plans for it. I hope someday to be able to tackle it, someday when I have the time and will to do so. Until then; however, I will stick to the first two.

Of the first two, I am looking to move forward with Blaze first, before turning to work on the Crystal Dungeon. I am sorry if that dissapoints anyone, but I haven't quite done enough work preparing a world for that story. I have the great moments of action, but nothing to bridge them with. It will take time for that to continue and I will most likely release a new version so that it stands on its own merit. All that; however, depends on how well Blaze does.

A note of warning: Blaze is far darker, and I hope more complex than the Crystal Dungeon but at its heart will be a fairly happy story. I'll be trying quite a few of the new tricks I learned along the way this past year in it, and as such it will probably feel very different from what you've read of my work so far. I hope you'll enjoy it, but if you can't bring yourself to trust me anymore, I am left to just once again apologize.

I'll answer any questions you have to the best of my ability, but I will not discuss personal matters. I'll just leave it at multiple tragedies occured within an unreasonably short period of time. They are in the past now, and I'd rather not open old wounds by going into them any further.

In rest, Your enigmatic author has returned with an apologetic, yet nonetheless grandiose entrance! For what is life without flair? : D