like the story so far but found a typo 
 accepted by Carolyn in Sirius’ behalf
in should be on 
normally i'd send this message in a pm but you don't seem to have them turned on 
Author's response
Heya goku.
Sorry about the typo(s).  I’m using Word2000 and my automatic spell checker seems to have gone tits-up.  I’m working on the problem, but expect to find more than a few errors in the near future.  Sorry.
Alorkin