Hi, Some of you, or maybe none of you, might be curious where I have been. Short answer, I've been stuck with a bad case of writers block for this story.

Long answer.

After posting the last chapter you all read, I spent a long while writing extremely rough drafts for what's to come next, and no matter how I messed with events, or how I tweaked conversations, it wasn't coming out in a manner that was up to my standards. Or, more accurately, It felt like the events where just point on a board, and I'd somehow lost where I wanted the events to go.

while that was going on, I got a new job, and for some reason, despite the job being easy, literally the type of job that anyone with working legs hands and arms could do, I found that it was stressing me out more than I thought it should. And that stress redoubled on my writers block to make it worse.

I never stepped thinking about my fiction, in fact I literally spent a good 30 or so minutes fantasising up a scene just before sitting down to type this. But that scene doesn't fit where the story is currently. In fact, I don't know when/if I'd ever get the chance to write that scene down. Remmeber I said that this story literally shifts under my fingers as characters personalities become more consistent in my head, and backstories become more relevant to what I"m doing. So by the time the relevant plot point shows up, I may end up writing something different.

All that said, I didn't want to just shove out chapters that amounted purely to narrated plot points, and I was, and still am facing difficulties with the current scenes. So I tried taking a break, and stopped typing anything all together.

But I don't think that was the correct choice.

I don't feel ready to resume. But I'm nowhere near ready to give up on this story.

Still, that might fall on deaf ears considering Web Novels authors do tend to write these types of messages, then literally vanish entirely never to be seen again. So as a show of good faith, I'm giving you all a chapter.

I wrote it in an attempt to give you all something that was relevant, but not a direct continuation of the previous scenes.

Do I know if it's good? Not at all.

Hell, it might literally be the worst chapter I've ever written, but it's something.

I'm gonna look into ways to improve my writing, and I'll try to keep you all in the loop better.

by the by, my house still isn't rebuilt from that fire, so that never helped anything.

expect that chapter within the week, I'm gonna look over it one more time, and schedule it for a quick release.