From Ben

Apex thanks for reading my story again! Im glad you enjoyed Chapter 21, although Chapter 22 is already out in Giant Bee since it seems you are waiting for that. (Btw: 1,000 words per chapter is still a lot! That’s very impressive compared to earlier fanfiction on the Dex). Well, I guess that’s all for now. And I heard you’re going to write a sequel sort of for The Obelisk, so I’ll be waiting around for that.

SunnyFox, I just realized a few things, mostly about Emma’s blindness! It’s probably from her future sight seeing, huh? That’s why her medallion glowed when she became blind. She probably saw either the demise of Tortuga, or her parents’ death, or something even worse in the future… that’s why she blamed herself, saying “It’s all my fault”.

Poor Emma. Well some other things I realized were that Joe is also blind, right? But why do I feel like both of their blindnesses are somehow connected? It said Joe got blind because of a disease, I think, but still. I feel like there’s some sort of connection there.

Also I wonder what happened to Mrs. Lois and Hawkthorne. I’m sure we’ll know soon in the sequel (probably not Shadow Phoenix though). I wonder if Mrs. Lois is important at all, she seems like she’s stayed at Tortuga for a while. And the more I think about it, have Andrew’s parents ever been mentioned? I don’t think so, it feels a little weird to me.

There’s too much to think about, too much to uncover for now. I guess I’ll wait until more questions are uncovered for me to figure out. But I’m sure we’ll figure them out as always.

See you on the flip side.

PS: Chapter 23 is just finished, so a few clicks and Ill publish it whenever I feel like it. Also happy Chinese New Years to those who celebrate it!