I can't really begin to find words to express my sincere gratitude for the gift of this fic - and it's not my gift. And yet, it is, because reading it has been a gift of monumental proportions.
This was so mature, so real, so intricate and solid and involving - it has joined my collection of 'keepers' for all times - because it is one of the best written, best thought-out stories I've had the pleasure to read.
There are so many aspects to it, the characterisation, the plot, the gentle, insistent pacing - the word that comes to mind is 'inevitable'. You made people out of characters, something I truly admire and find so rarely in fiction, fan or otherwise, that when I do I have to mention it.
I wont rave on pointlessly - you know what you've written and all the things you did with these characters. But please know that how you did it has affected me profoundly and with the deepest satisfaction.