I am an artist, not a writer, as you'll quickly find out if you ever visit my website. However, there are very, very, once-in-100-blue-moons-rare instances when inspiration hits me hard enough on the side of the head that a story must be told.

As I told a friend once, "I paint my scenes. Actions just happen to occur within it sometimes." Let that explain my writing to you as it may...

Overture, 9/20/09: This fic couldn't happen without the encouragement from you, the readers. Every time the piecemeal chunks of this story got put on hiatus from writer's block, it was a new review that inspired me to pick it back up. To everyone who stuck by this humble fic over the years, or even just stopped by on a whim, thank you for your patience and appreciation. I don't know if I'll ever be able to finish putting down to words the enormous tale I have in my head, but I will try to share as much of it as I can with you.