I want to take a moment to thank everyone here for having been with me through this story. Along the way, so much impacted my abilities to work on and complete this story. From health problems and family troubles, to artblock and psychiatric needs.

Recently I began to experience numbness and tingling in my pinky and ring fingers. Understanding what this is, it's cubital tunnel syndrome. With my hand burning on the upper and lower wrists, the trigger finger, and now this, I have no choice but to yield to more resting. This is going to heavily impact my upload rate.

But here we are still. Here we see the closing of one chapter, to go forward and continue seeing the next. I am humbled and grateful beyond words to be here in this moment with you dears. I look forward to continuing to hopefully present you stories and characters worth waiting for!
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I know you hear it on everything I post, but especially now I need help and support of you dears when it comes to my art and stories. I'm severely vulnerable due to the need to heal my hands and arms. Digital art will be impossible to accomplish due to how I have to rest my arm and that these pages can range from 3-8 hours. And I am sorry that this is going to be so much slower while I hop between resting the arm and doing cubital exercises. I needed to be transparent here as I've hit wall and I don't want to leave you all wondering why my rate went down.

....but I still do sketch work. Have been for a long time now. To the point I've posted over 3,600 on my patreon. Most recently I began uploading sketch pages of a series that may become the next digital, and not to be hyperbolic, but I feel I have not resonated with a story so much prior as this one. Currently at 16 pages, I still have a lot to go.

It would mean the world to me if even for a single time, you might consider joining my Patreon. At $5 you can check out the mountain of ideas I sketch out, and even join our growing discord community. We're all a bunch of swash buckling pirates, I promise.

https://www.patreon.com/join/Shane_Frost