You're alive (again)! WOO! Now, ah, review. You've still got it, that ability to draw the reader in so completely the spell isn't broken until one's nose bumps the screen. Really, so good... It's the last paragraph that does it, and also N-Nami taught-t- *coughhack* Oi, I'll need to get used to these again unless I want my head to implode.
~Naolin