Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed this, and that it made sense even though you hadn't had a chance to read the first few chapters. I'm also glad the line about solicitation worked. I remeber looking at that line over and over, and liking it, but not being sure if it would read correctly.

And yes selene2 did do my banner, and almost all of my LJ layout. (basically I figured out how to add the cloud tag, but everything else was hers).