Dear Princess Audience,
This story is one of those things where the ideas just won't leave you alone until you type them out. Tales untold and all that jazz. It's especially difficult when you're one of those people who starts a story at the ending has to figure out how to get there. For me, I knew where I wanted the story to end up. Things just didn't exactly work out. As the late Mr. Cash once said, things just happen thataway. The contents of this story are, to the best of my knowledge, what we had planned for the future of the Chessverse. Regardless, this was always more or less how I imagined things working out. And that's canon enough for me. As always, no pre-reader and no editor. So, by all means please point out errors that need correcting.
With love,
Strange Phantasm.