Oh, I certainly don't mind you coming over here -- actually, I'm sure I would have gotten around to coming by your journal later this afternoon; I've been regrettably busy and am just now finding time to respond to my reviews and so forth and so on.

But your story made me squee; it just *couldn't* have been more perfectly what I wanted, and I was thrilled beyond measure to find such a wonderfully long, plotty story waiting in my stocking on Christmas morning! I have adored Hellburner for years and desperately wished Cherryh would write more with those characters, and your story fits so perfectly into that gap -- it's just a perfect fit with canon in style and tone and timeline; it's very plausible that things could have happened that way, and wonderful to think that maybe they did happen that way. And as noted in my squee-post above, you somehow managed to nail most of my fanfic preferences spot-on without even knowing me! It's a wonderful story and my only regret for it is that it hasn't garnered more reviews -- although I suppose that this isn't just a rare fandom, it's a *micro* fandom (since I've been searching for Hellburner fic for years and have never seen any). But it totally deserves more love; it's so wonderfully written and emotionally satisfying.

Thank you so much for making my holiday wishes come true!

p.s. Thank you for the tip about the message board! I'll have a look!