thank you. i'm glad it read well. it took -ages- to write, and i was hesitant, in the end, to share it. i didn't even cross post it to lj because i knew this had a much smaller audience. but it means a lot to know that it reads well.

i haven't really updated about what actually happened. just--the character of aadi, in this case, is heavily based on aastik pokhrel, a friend of mine from hanover who is every bit the force of nature that i described. eventually i will probably get to a point where i can post about him more directly, but not yet.