Dammit dammit dammit... I'm going away for a week tomorrow, but I would really like to have some input in this...
Has everyone lost interest? If so, I would quite like to do a finishing post - if no one else would mind waiting - or Mithalwen can, as she has volunteered; I would like to add a bit of my own on the end though. If no one wants to continue, we could just leave the story on a sort of edge - a sort of looking forward to the future for what they have, bleak though it (undeniably) is...