You know what would really make this story better?  If it came out faster.  ^_^



I don't like the very concept behind SIs.  I read fanfiction because I'm
interested

in reading about the characters of the series.



But I do like this story; its excellence, and general exception from other
SIs, is

how it uses the SI format to hold up the mirror of an outsider's
perspective to the

series cast.  So far, it's as much or more about them (through Skyler's eyes)

as it is about Skyler.  The Utena characters are all beautifully written,
and Skyler

isn't particularly annoying, as SIs go.  I realize this is something of a
backhanded

compliment, but...



It's good to see that the story is beginning to diverge more significantly from

Utena canon, and we're beginning to see hints (in the sequence in the

library with Skyler and Juri) of just what he might have been brought here to

do.  This chapter also seemed to have less of Skyler brooding by himself

(which is something that I didn't like in previous parts) and more of Skyler

interacting with the cast (which is what I like to see).



An excellent job all around.  I just wish that the story would come out faster;

if you're going to end on cliffhangers like this one, it's not fair to make
us wait

so many months.  :)



Ciao,

-Alan Harnum