haha thanks for being grateful-- seems like an uncommon trait nowadays. anyway... yeah this chapter was really good, especially the description of a sleeping Alix at the end. If you want to look at examples of this kind of fic, two really brilliant stories i would recommend are Petals In The Wind and The Dove Keeper. I found them both on a livejournal group where there are a lot of good fics, but those are two of the best. I like the depth and background info you put into this chapter, and its a great fic so far- which is hard to say on a site like ficwad. but oh well. ill dig up the links for those two fics and post them as a review, so im not done yet...
-Sarah-