i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

insidian told me, via email, that this doesn't feel done to me because i just haven't come to terms with the fact that it is finished *grin*, so maybe i'm just projecting my own issues onto this and they're bleeding through to you. :) i'm not sure i'd like to write a sequel, either way; i sort of feel that that's where all of the gangsters live is the other half to this, even if the details of the stories aren't all the same. so i guess i feel like i already did write the second half? hmmm.

i kind of like the idea of ray taking night classes to finish up the credits he needed to go to the academy; i used to live upstairs from a cpd shift supervisor, and you can sit for the entrance exam without having those credits, as long as you get them before you finish the academy, so there's always that option for ray. :) and i know nothing about astrology so i can't speak to ray being a typical virgo, but i thought there was ... well, chicago julys are long and hot and the city sort of hums with this restless energy that it doesn't always have during the rest of the year, and ray born in that month just made sense to me. but, you know, that's just me.

thank you so much for these lovely commentsl i'm so glad you enjoyed this.