First off I feel I owe everyone reading my story, or that has read my story, an apology; I have been more or less out of it since before Christmas, with being down with a sinus infection, and multiple cases of tonsillitis, on top of only getting between five and seven hours of sleep daily because I'm being called on for everything from an errand boy to personal chauffeur... I haven't been working on the story more than about a paragraph at a time, it's all I can manage, when I even have enough energy to write. I'm reallly sorry for how far behind I'm falling in this project, but at the moment there just aren't enough hours in the day... I'm hoping that things will be back to somewhat normal by the end of the month, though, I'm not making any gaurentees.

Now then for that update:
I am still working on the "Escape From Mechatropolis" section of the story, but am more than half way finished. I'm anticipating at least eight chapters in total for this, but it's possible that it may work its way back up to ten, like the manuscript, but only time will tell; if that is the case, the entire first part of the story will likely be close to thirty chapters given that it was intended to be the rewrite of the first ten chaptrers of the manuscript.

I'm going to keep this short, since that's about all the news I have for now... so... yeah... not a whole lot going on at the moment worth saying... Sorry.