Have been waiting for HOURS for work to finish to be able to read this, AND oh my, I guess my commuting co-travellers decided I was em slightly mad for all the relieved grinnin I couldn’t quite suppress 🙂 Thanks for the update! It is obviously a huge itchy cliffhanger and an emotional roller-coaster from part to part, but that’s a fare share of the pleasure. Ah sorry for the Archives-type of comment here)

eeeeee thank you – I’m so glad I garnered you some strange looks with your grinning! sorry about the cliffhanger, but at least it’s a high note cliffie! And never apologize for lengthy comments! I love them! I use the energy I get off of them to write more things like some kind of weird comment-fueled vampire – ok, that got weird but the point is that I freaking love comments in whatever form I can get them.