If I am wrong, I apologize in advance, but I did not see a [darkfic] or
any other warning (beyond the title, in retrospect) about the nature of
the story before I read the whole thing.  Please do so next time!  Not
everyone finds darkfics something they can read.

Personally, when I really get into a story, "me" stops existing and is
replaced by the universe of the story.  The net affect is that I deeply
experience every bad and good thing that happens to the characters that I
begin to love or care about.  The fact that I am a powerless spectator
makes it worse.  So a sad outcome leaves me feeling many things, rage,
hatred, a desire to smash things, a deep apathy for life, to name a few. 
Nothing that makes me want to wake up in the morning! ^ ^ I try to avoid
darkfics for this reason.  :)  "There Be Monsters," as the old maps say. 

I'm not saying don't write these stories!  Just please be a little more
careful in labelling them.  It was incredibly well written, but I spent 2
hours waiting for things to start going right, and it never happened.  I
understand that some people love these kind of stories, can't get enough
of them.  To me that is totally alien, hideous almost.  I can't say I
liked the outcome of the story, and I apologize for my first post to Zen,
it isn't fair to ask "What was the point?". ^ ^ You can ignore that one,
Zen.  But don't forget to let people know its dark, please!  Thank you
very much.

Charles K. Hurst - ImageNation Corp. Wage Slave/Employee - RPI graduate-MechE
Chocolate and Anime Forever!  1 year, 9 months a fan and counting.
MI = eps. 96  MB = eps. 76 - 0/0 episodes each to utter boredom or Fushigi!
FY = eps. 52  Escaflowne = eps. 26 - 0/0 episodes - night courses in Japanese