Thank you all so far for speaking up, and *does a running flip over Kuro's upraised hands, because I can do that in pretend world and get [i]past[/i] her level and all that* :sun And thank you for the offer Kuro, if you have a moment that would be wonderful.

Again, just for anyone who doesn't want to go back a page and hasn't spoken up already, I'd simply like to hear by January 2nd who is still on board so we can move toward pulling all the ends of these plots together - and thanks guys!