LAST EDITED ON 05-17-03 AT 06:32 PM (EDT)
 
A very satisfying read, a good, solid ending for a story about the eternal war, and worth the wait. It is a tragedy that one of the people who would have most looked forward to this is no longer with us, and yet without her passing this project might still be languishing, unfinished. I think that Rachael would have been honored to become a character in NXE (she even has an angelic name, how fitting) and, if you believe in an afterlife, she probably is. In the perversity of the way the world works, Gryphon found perhaps in the passing of Rachael the muse that was missing to allow him to complete the story that Rachie loved. In that, possibly, Rachael has found one more little bit of immortality beyond that held in the memories of all those whose lives she touched. A beautiful piece of work.