I know it's foolish to hope for an update on this (because of this: Updated: 09-06-05), but I am going to be optimistic due to my love for YAC, Gippalai, and your fanfiction.


*hangs onto final thread of hope*

Thank you for the new first chapter. That makes this clear now. Poor Baralai, he was always the sacrificial lamb whose blood must be spilt for atonement. Did you intend him to be so christ-like a figure? What a splintering of the fellowship you have described.

Brr. Chilling and beautiful at the same time. I find myself wondering what he did, to bring him to this moment, and at the same time it doesn't really matter. A sad but fitting end.

I have to admit, I don't understand what happened. Would love to know more, especially in light of Paine's entry 10 years after. But even without that, this is too ambigious for me to follow. I hope you continue, I'll watch for possible updates.

Ohh... love, this is wonderful. You have his journal voice down amazingly well. I just wish that it was more clear, more explicit what he did that made things come to this end, what he expects to happen. I know the story -- you told it to me -- but I worry that less-observant people won't understand. But... oh, the shooting star... it's so sad. So very, very, very sad.

It is hard to let go, isn't it? You have brought Baralai so far along his road in this story, I hope you will not now abandon him.

"Perhaps, I was once a shooting star, but now my light finally fades."

Beautifully put. I hope you will continue to follow your Baralai as his adventure goes on.