esjay is weird like that. Some of her stuff is incredibly good and the rest -- isn't. Kiss of Shadows would be the story with excessive dying, by the way. I liked parts of it tremendously, and then -- well, usually then someone died. I think my main complaint with that one was that it came to what I thought would be an end too many times, and then there was yet another setback. Kinda like Speed to the power of ten.