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I want to thank you for your time and care in this story. It is a delicate and deeply personal subject; one so easily prone to a romanticism that it doesn’t deserve. Your honest and direct painting of the humiliation and various pitfalls experienced by victims of physical and emotional abuse was apt and respectfully done. I completely agree that the length you noted in ch. 39 was not only worthwhile, but an appreciated necessity. It’s part of what allowed your narrative, demonstrative of a maturity in premise and characters, to really shine. So often we become too eager to arrive at the destination or resolve of Pam’s awakening and healing, but the journey there is so important, especially under these circumstances.

I also loved your balance of altruism and grappling with human selfishness in both Pam and Jim. And to sporadically tap into the hallmark humor of the ensemble characters without shattering the serious setting was excellent!

Your prose is beautiful and poetic while not being superfluous; something I personally struggle with and always find impressive. I’m so eager to read the sequel and looking forward to any future works you might share!

Okay, now that this one is all up and posted here on MTT, I'm going to do a kind of quick wrap up with it all.

Throughout everything this has been a hugely powerful story. The very real feelings of loathing for this Roy, the pride in Pam as she finally gets away from that, the admiration for Jim in standing by her side and everything in between.

Really glad the judge didn't buy any of Roy's BS there in the courtroom. Especially there at the end as the sentance was handed down and Roy starts screaming again. Roy showed his true colors there and it showed.

Moving onto other things, the kiss in the art gallery was all sorts of lovely, but then it comes kind of crashing down due to the remergence of Casino Night lines.

However I did apprciate that Pam showed back up to explain a few things. Sad she still left, but it's also understandable. She needs some time away to process things. That was a lot of trauma she was dealing with so getting some distance makes sense.

Glad there's a sequel already in the works because this ending just begs for a resolution. Great writing with everything here.

So when I read this on FFN I was genuinely gutted by the idea of it ending there. SO happy you elected to give this journey another volume.