then again, you mentioned something about how "present" i want brendon to be, and, yeah... idk... the majority of the book -- er, fic lol -- is going to be ryan's journey as a slave. i don't want the ryden element to be lost completely, since so much of the story is going to be ryan alone. but, i guess what i could do is just have enough of a story AFTER he and ryan escape, to maintain the whole this-is-ryden! aspect. their post-escape journey needs a lot of fleshing out. i don't know how i want that to work. i don't want them just riding off into the sunset.