Almost six years ago—just over five years and eleven months, to be exact—I posted "Absence". I was amalin back then, too, but a different one. And I was in fandom before that, but I view that as the true beginning, and while I might write things after this, I view this as the end.

I can't explain why, but maybe you'll get it: "Reparo" feels like the ending to the story "Absence" started. It isn't the same story, but in my mind, they're an arc, and this is where that arc stops.

I went from amalin to monochromal to cercaluna to loftily to treeswing back to amalin, and here I am, and it's been good, it really has. And now I am leaving and I feel good about that. As I said once before (or a thousand times), thanks for all the years and all the love. :-*