I've been on hiatus from public publishing. From self-critical burnout, to procrastination, I have the whole novel of reasons why I'm not publishing anything right now.
But enough about me.
Let's talk about what I was doing in the background.
This year, as a fun end of the year project (and as a feel good for doing something nice for the community), I decided to host a Secret Santa. Summarized, our *14* Secret Santas were given a random person on this 14-strong list to arrange one of their scores. They had almost all December, even extended past the 25th to today (the 31st where I'm at) to make at least 1 minute of arranged material. This was, however, made in announcement for Flat's unofficial server (MCS), mainly to keep the host (me) from being overwhelmed, expecting a relatively big turnout. Although close for some of the participants, everyone got their pieces in and are publishing them throughout today into tomorrow!
If you want to see the other participants' entries, search up the tag 'secretsanta2022'
And - thank you participants for sticking with my constant nags in the DMs. :P
As for this piece, this was my "entry" into this project. Aech was not on the participant list. I just wanted to give him something, because I dang miss him dearly and his rise-to-fame series: A Land Long Forgotten. I'm a bit rusty, so I'm not going to claim it's another Katarkaros-level piece in any form. Hope you enjoy!
-Red
No secrets here on the bottom text this time... right?