I'm so pleased you enjoyed the fic so much--I had a great deal of fun with Binns and the castle. Angst without resolution generally isn't my thing, so yeah, seeing it was 'my' story, you were fairly safe that you wouldn't end up with some depressing unresolved dystopia. I wish I could claim 'Rite of Passage'--it's one of my favs too, but was written by Rushlight.