Very good, EA. Well written, well planned, and LONG! If this first chapter is anything to go by, the story should be excellent. Keep it up!

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"It's easy to cry that you're beaten, and die;
It's easy to crawfish and crawl,
But to fight and to fight, when hope's out of sight-
Why, that's the best game of them all!
And though you come out of each gruelling bout
All broken and beaten and scarred,
Just have one more try- it's dead easy to die!
It's the keeping-on-living that's hard."