After some discussion with others, I've changed the genre for this story from Fan Fiction to Fantasy. Since I tend to abuse the Last Exile universe for my own amusement, this is far less of a true Fan Fiction story than readers might expect, and I hope the tag change reflects that.
I'm out of town this week, but I hope to get some writing done while I'm gone to make up for all the writing I didn't do while worrying about going out of town!
I've been busy with some other things on my plate, so this chapter is quite overdue. I will try my best to keep to a chapter-a-week schedule.
Happily I have found the help file that explains how to edit posts, and with SOL's rapid submission policy, the chapters are already back up again. I love that.
I just figured out that the submission process strips out extra linefeeds. It took 3 author FAQs before I found something telling me that this would happen. Now I've got 4 chapters up that are borked!
Well I guess it'll be fixed going onward. :)