X12: Heartfelt Gratitudes [Text]

[stupidgenes]

[He'd thought long and hard before writing this.]

To everyone and everything in the City and beyond:

THANK YOU. I can't express enough my gratitude and deepest appreciations for your existence. Special thanks to the City and its deities for giving me a second chance since I'm supposed to be dead. It's given me a place and, to some lesser extent, purpose. Thanks also for the curses, which seem stupid and pointless at times if they aren't all about ruining people's lives, reputations, and relationships with one another.

Thanks to those I've met who aren't here anymore. Your company was well-appreciated.

Thanks to those who are still around to keep me company. I know we've been through some rough times, and we don't know what else lies ahead or what other surprises the City has in store for us.

Thanks to Janine, Eagle Vision, and others I've conversed with.

Thanks to Estelle. At least we know how to handle things when waking in each other's bed to discover we've been handcuffed together. If it ever happens again, we'll know how to handle it. There are probably people who are worse off to be attached to for the whole duration of a curse.

Thanks to Yuri, Rita, and Tyr.

Thanks to everyone from Auldrant who ever paid a visit and didn't stay very long. It's probably better that you aren't here anymore.

Special thanks to Natalia Luzu Kimlasca-Lanvaldear for being the strong, courageous, capable, beauteous, amazing woman she is. If only there were more ways to express my appreciation for her without the possibility of her being trapped in the City. She's important and has a lot of things to take care of, so she really shouldn't wind up getting stuck here. Nevertheless, I am grateful for every single precious moment graced by her shining presence, whether here or back in Auldrant. There is no other person I hold more dear and beloved in my heart.

Thanks to Guy.

Special thanks to the replica for surviving here over a year, having an apartment to share with me, and maintaining Hymns of Lorelei, the restaurant established by Natalia. I'm not offended by the fact that you're called 'Luke'. You didn't turn out so bad after all.

Thanks to anyone I forgot, even though everyone deserves to be listed here.

[... Excuse Asch while he hides in a corner now that it's posted.]