Just a quick rush through to let you know I've read this once even though I should have waited, but I couldn't stop myself. I'm in love with this story from first word to last. Love. The prose is so beautiful, not a word wasted, the details so breathtaking in their emotional shrewdness and vivid landscaping and the characterization - good God, it's perfect. The sort of characterization that hits all my buttons. I'm fluttering like mad with the need to give you more thorough feedback, but I don't have time today. So this is a promissory note for later, when I'm free to come back and lavish on this fic all the attention it so richly deserves.
Whoever you are, you're brilliant. And I am extraordinarily lucky. *jumps for joy*