'Ah,' exclaimed Owen, who had drank freely, 'are you alive again, child of the sun and playmate of the summer breeze, after your dismal winter's nap? Then it is time for me to be at work!'

OI! GUESS WHO'S STILL ALIVE AND KICKIN?! >D

And I MISSED YOU, all you nerds! All you mad hatters and demon-slayers, elf-friends and trail blazers, all you adventurers and gypsies and sky pirates and riders of fantasy's winds! *glomps you all* I am returned, my comrades!

So for the past coupla years, I have undergone tremendous personal growth and self-discovery and all that epic spiritual stuff. Under the new and fitting name of MercurialNight, I have returned to the beginning of my inspiration and the first stepping stone in my authorial quest for adventure, freedom, and the undying human spirit's responses to life's many golden pains and treasures. X] So anyways, don't expect too much of me, but I'll be writing in my free time again. I'll be reading and reviewing and active in the community and all that good stuff XD

Witness the rebirth of Night! Dreamer extraordinaire! XD

Let me explain!
...No, there is too much. Let me sum up.

What About Reasons? - I would LOVE to continue this story. Love to. I need time, though! TIEEEMMMZ! I know I'm back and better than ever and everything, but you guys, I'm still so horrifically lazy @_@ But lately I've been replaying the game, and I got all up in the Sandsea and Raithwall's place, then all the epicness that comes after that part, and lemme tell ya I'm looking forward to some of those cutscenes. I'm on the verge of inspiration!

Perfect - I have been giving serious consideration to a rewrite. Maybe! No promises, but this crazyboat might just be christened in the coming months or so.

The kind of thing you can expect from me is the structure of Perfect and Reasons: inserting one of my own OCs into a series/story I like. But I do like to write with just the canons, too, when the almighty mind of Inspiration decides that such may be profitable. Anyway, I'll try to update often, but I can't rush. "I am the most incurably lazy devil to ever stand in shoe leather." I get random inspiration and plot bunnies all the time; however, I also lose said inspiration as unpredictably as the shifting sands of time @_@

Oh yeah. I'm always editing my past chapters. I guess I'm a perfectionist that way. Chances are my stories are always changed and better the second time you look at them.

Btw: I LIVE for feedback. It motivates me and I'm more likely to write things. Review, people! It's the only way writers sustain their inner fires and burn through thier unstable mood swings!

Favorite quotes tiemz!! XD (These aren't all of them, of course)

"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
-Isaac Asimov

"We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise lasts but a few moments.
But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally."
-Drizzt Do'Urden ; R. A. Salvatore

"Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question."
-Stephen King, 'It'

"'Ah,' exclaimed Owen, who had drank freely, 'are you alive again, child of the sun and playmate of the summer breeze, after your dismal winter's nap? Then it is time for me to be at work!' And, leaving his unemptied glass upon the table, he departed and was never known to sip another drop of wine."
-Hawthorne, "The Artist of the Beautiful"

"Thus it is that ideas, which grow up within the imagination and appear so lovely to it and of a value beyond whatever men call valuable, are exposed to be shattered and annihilated by contact with the practical. It is requisite for the ideal artist to possess a force of character that seems hardly compatible with its delicacy; he must keep his faith in himself while the incredulous world assails him with its utter disbelief; he must stand up against mankind and be his own sole disciple, both as respects his genius and the objects to which it is directed."
-Hawthorne, "The Artist of the Beautiful"

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out."
-Stephen King

"Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an elf."
"What about side by side with a freind?"
"Aye...that I could do."
-Legolas and Gimli (The Lord of the Rings - movie)

"There is light. Beauty up there that no shadow can touch."
-Samwise Gamgee (The Lord of the Rings - movie)

"There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
-Samwise Gamgee (The Lord of the Rings - movie)

There are a great many more from the Lord of the Rings book, I just haven't typed them all out here. >.

"For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's."
-Romans 14:8

"Forgiveness is the perfume the flower leaves upon the sole of the shoe that trampled it."
-Annonymous

"Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, 'I did not know.'"
-William Wilberforce

"A good poem is seldom about what it seems to be about."
-Robert Frost

"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
-Inigo Montoya (shocker) ; 'The Princess Bride'

"Inigo!"
"What?"
"I hope we win."
- Inigo and Fezzik ; 'The Princess Bride'

"No more rhymes now, I mean it!"
"Anybody want a peanut?"
- Vezzini and Fezzik ; 'The Princess Bride'

"Can you move at all?"
"Move? You're alive... If you want I can fly."
Buttercup and Westley ; 'The Princess Bride'

"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
Westley ; 'The Princess Bride'

"As you wish."
Westley ; 'The Princess Bride'

"Those who hate and fight must stop themselves, Doctor. Otherwise it is not stopped."
-Spock ; 'Star Trek'

"I'm not cooperating! I may die but you won't get any entertainment out of it."
-Kirk; 'Star Trek'

"You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."
-Spock ; 'Star Trek'

"I say 'I'm sorry.' It usually disarms them."
-Sarah Silverman

"It's a DEVIL BALL!"
-Thief ; "The Thief and the Cobbler

"They should have a sign 'Beware of Signs'."
-Thief ; 'The Thief and the Cobbler'

"I can't help but question the color of this water..."
-Thief ; 'The Thief and the Cobbler'

"You cannot win a game of tug-of-war by merely standing firm."
-Dale Adams

"I'm not as random as you think I salad."
-Some icon I found

"It is better, I think, to grab at the stars rather than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them...At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good veiw, and perhaps a low-hanging apple for his effort."
-R. A. Salvatore ; Montolio DeBrouche

"Tell me of mercy, wise Cadderly," Dorigen remarked. "Is it strength, or weakness?"
"Strength," the young preist answered without hesitation.
-R.A. Salvatore (Dorigen and Cadderly. Interesting nerd fact: He also does a scene with almost the exact same wording between Vierna and Drizzt.)

"We go together or not at all."
-Spock ; 'Star Trek'

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."
-John Andrew Holmes

"I fail to comprehend your indignation, sir. I have simply made the logical deduction that you are a liar."
-Spock ; 'Star Trek'

"The word...is no. I am therefore going anyway."
-Kirk ; 'Star Trek'

"Up yer shaft."
-Scotty ; 'Star Trek'

"Beam me up, Scotty."
-...lots of people. ; 'Star Trek'

"It is enough for me to know that we will understand all, when we reach our home."
-Natira ; 'Star Trek'

"I believe it is time to move on."
-Spock ; 'Star Trek'

"We may disappear tomorrow...but at least we're living now."
-Kirk ; 'Star Trek'

"The best defense is a good offense. And I intend to start offending right now."
-Kirk ; 'Star Trek'

"Once again, we've saved civilization as we know it."
"The good news is: they're not gonna prosecute."
-Kirk and McCoy; 'Star Trek'

"Well either choke me or cut my throat, make up your mind."
-McCoy ; 'Star Trek'

"They defied me...until they felt my wrath." -'Apollo'
"I would like to point out that we are quite capable of some wrath ourselves." -Scotty
'Star Trek'

"I don't agree with you at all, Mr. Spock." -McCoy
"That's not unusual, Doctor." -Spock
'Star Trek'

"The most cooperative man on this world is a dead man. Now if you don't keep your mouth shut, you're gonna be cooperatin'."
-Bella Oxmyx ; 'Star Trek'

"Curious how you humans so often manage to obtain that which you do not want."
-Spock

"Yes, there is weakness. There is frailty. But there is courage also--and honor to be found in men."
-Boromir; 'The Lord of the Rings' (film)

"I never thought I'd die fighting side-by-side with an elf!"
"What about side-by-side with a friend?"
"Aye...that I could do."
-Legolas and Gimli; 'The Lord of the Rings' (film)

"Certainty of death...small chance of success...what're we waitin for?"
-Gimli; 'The Lord of the Rings' (film)

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king."
-The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien.

"Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens."
-Gimli; The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien.