Author's Notes/Comments/Response:

Hi. So I've been gone for almost two whole years and not updated. In that time I've received a ton of reviews and PM's and even a few tumblr asks wanting to know if/when I'll be continuing this story and when and update or chapter may come. I've also had a lot of people comment on things they want to know more about or call out things they think are odd (and rightly so). I intended to address all of that so here we go.

I will not be updating Blood Contract anymore. I'm discontinuing the story. Per multiple requests, I'm not taking it down but leaving it as it is, mistakes and all. I do not intend to continue this story in its current sloppy and poor state. I would love to one day in the distant future completely rewrite this as it should be, and without all the grammar/spelling errors and speed bumps along with better pacing, characterization (consistency, etc), and just overall in a better way. A few reasons I won't be continuing this story are a) I'm now a college grad trying to get into grad school and move and do all this other stuff to progress in life and just don't have the time/motivation right now b) I am not happy with the story and my writing ability and skills to write it as I think it should be c) I am not happy with some of the social biases and other issues within the story, etc.

Now that that's out of the way, will I give an explanation, wrap up the story, and answer questions at least? Yes. I have no problem with laying out some stuff. I obviously intend to state how the story would have ended; give you background on Jena, Lazarus, Xavier, Charles, Rosemary, Sykes; explain the key events in the story I had planned leading to the end; what exactly Jena is (species wise); explain the soul mate concept I had for the world; explain Vitarious generally (like what it is and info about its society and history and stuff); and that's all I can think of. If there are any other questions anyone wants answered PM me or leave a review or however you'd like to do it and I'll add it to the doc I'm working on that I'll post in a few days to a week from now with all the answers and stuff.

I also wanted to thank everyone for their encouragement, kind words, and to the several someone's who once tried to beta my story and or help out with the plot or help me improve it in one way or another or just gave me some kind of inspiration. If I forget anyone I am sorry, some of you I've been out of contact with for years so I'm sorry if I forgot your name!

THANK YOU TO: alias h. anonymous, FantasyReader15, Kaena Blaise, Jennyt82, KuraraOkumura, and at least two or three others who no matter where I look in my old emails and PM's I'm not able to find their correspondence anymore (and thus their names).