Hello.


    Just dropping a quick note to reassure anyone who''s interested that this story is still active, is not being dropped, not on hiatus, etc.  I am still actively working on it at any moment I am able to mentally focus on it.


    Life, as each of us know, has a habit of throwing wrenches both physical and mental into our machinery.  Focus and time are difficult to come by at times.


    When I first started this, I made the statement that I was not a writer.  That this was very difficult for me.  But that I wanted to try anyway.  In this, I''ve been bluntly honest with myself and, I hope, with anyone who picks up this story.  I maintain this statement - I am not a writer.  But I have so many stories in my head, all the time.


    This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.


    It''s just very, very difficult to get them out.


    So please, all I can reasonably request of anyone who reads this, if you''re at all interested in seeing where the story goes (and it will be going, that I can promise, especially once Alex starts to interact with other carriages of the train and their denizens) just...keep me on your backburner.  I take up very little space there, and won''t make too much of a mess.


    Kindest regards,


    The Octopus