I'm so pleased that you are still reading!! :D Thanks for hanging on, I know this is taking ages to finish. It's begun its downward descent though, so hopefully an end should be in sight!

Glad you found it painful. Unfortunately, I don't think I will really go into Erik's backstory, I'm afraid - it would be time consuming and practically the same as what was shown in XMFC. Hope that's okay!

(Also, next part's up!) xx