Hello everyone! As some of you may have noticed, I have been quite distant recently.

There's no real excuse for this, even more so when I owe writing to the winners of my free story raffle, and I really feel guilty about not being able to find the energy to get things done, or even to simply tell anyone that I might not be as consistent as I used to be in the past.

If anyone cares for a short version of what's caused all this, basically my mental health hasn't really been in a good state ever since the lockdown devolved into summer break and family things just became a mess, as did my personal life. I haven't been able to even think of writing, and I've just been cutting everything off from my life because I just couldn't take the pressure of simple things just like having to reply to text messages and whatnot.

Now that uni has started and also now that I've been working, my life seems to be gradually falling back into place and I finally feel like I have it in me to come out about this and actually make a statement on why I've been so silent. I believe that with time, I'll be able to get back to writing, and hopefully I can finish the things I've started a couple months ago.

To anyone who has been particularly affected by this, my deepest apologies. I never expected to watch myself get to the point I did, and I hope that it won't happen again anytime soon.

That said, I'll be posting something that I had finished a long time ago, which is just a simple little story I wrote to accompany a piece of artwork I commissioned a while ago, and hopefully that will be to your enjoyment!

I hope to start replying to my notes in the following weeks, and I also hope that my writing will become consistent once again—if not for you, then for myself to simply get back into routine and have something to occupy myself with.

Thank you all for your attention! Your tolerance really means a lot to me.