Ah, I remember when I said, "20.8k words… someone shoot me if I ever try to do something like this again." on Four Flush, but here we are: 24.7k words and nearly a year later. I think I just hate myself.
A humongous thank you goes out to my critters who are full of poor judgement for being willing to crit this thing wonderful users who sacrificed much of their personal time to slog through this behemoth. I cannot thank you enough, meltedbee and
SunnySundays.
Another thank you is in order to UncannyClown who told me to just steal a line from something when I expressed frustration at being unable to title this piece. Shoutout to "Hellfire" by black midi. (This also means if I get in trouble for this, the blame rests solely on Uncanny.)
A wonderful postmortem thank you goes out to Din-Bidor for correcting my SpaG. It's so easy for things to slip by once you've read a thing a million times over, especially something this long.
Now, if you will excuse me, I must go as there is someone knocking at my door and I believe they are here to fulfill the obligation I set out with that "shoot me" comment. Little do they know, I keep a primed claymore by the shoe rack.
Until next time!
Goodbye, Zion.