Ghost of the Past-Ranger's Apprentice Fanfic *Working Progress*

Untitled Part 16

Authors Note

I feel terrible for this after all the waiting I've put you all through, but at the moment I simply can't write. I hope after explaining the reason behind that statement you'll be able to understand and hopefully won't be too annoyed at me.

Recently a family member died suddenly of cancer having been diagnosed a mere eight weeks ago. The suddenness of the situation has hit us all hard, things were only made worse  by the fact that he had written a speech to be read out at his own funeral. For those who have never experienced that, I hope you will never have to. I have never been so emotional in my entire life, it's unreal to listen to a speech written by the man who's ashes you hold in your hands. He addressed nearly all of us personally and gave us advice for the future and thanked us for all we had done for him, naturally causing everyone to be in floods of tears. My mother was hit the hardest by all of this as she grew up with him, they were like brother and sister and she didn't have the chance to say goodbye as he lived on the other side of the World to us. It had been five years since we'd last seen him and with the suddenness of the whole situation we only received word of his condition two days before he passed away, thus we didn't actually get the chance to see him one finally time or to speak to him. That fact combined with the funeral has caused my mother to effectively have a breakdown. She's riddled with guilt for never saying goodbye, and is an emotional wreck after losing her closest and oldest friend and the man she would have married if she wasn't related to him. He was the man we all looked up to and, as many said at his funeral, he was our role model and our hero. Consequently she's had a relapse and has started drinking and smoking again as well as succumbing to depression. It must therefore come to no surprise that writing is at the bottom of my list of priorities. At the moment the only thing I care about is my mother and I hope you can understand that and forgive me for not being able to update or tell you when I will next be updating this piece.