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K, the ball is officially rolling and this is the first new page of ST that's shown up for a while. Once again, I'm sorry the art (and even coloring at this point) is so old. As much as I enjoy ST, I want very much to start a new project and use all the things I've learned from this one. Part of me hates to see these old images posted as "new" but I don't think it's fair to the readers for me to not finish up ST.

As for an update schedule, let's go with every other day for now, starting today. I've worked ahead on the pages, but I'm not ready to promise a definite page schedule quite yet.

As for the upcoming chapter 9, I see now that I was a tad too ambitious as far as setting and mood goes. Some things you cannot easily convey to paper, and I've fallen terribly short of my original vision of these next few scenes. Please keep that in mind as you (as I'm sure you will :P) continue to check back for new ST pages.