Thank you, and please pass my thanks along to Ari as well.

And don't worry about you being busy--I'm on vacation this next week, and I anticipate being busy as well due to the fact that I've just been given the honor of cleaning the entire house and organizing the paperwork and so on. d'oh.

Interesting idea for him knowing Ally's father--I like it. How old is her Dad? Is he still around? I was figuring that my guy was more of a security guard type who eventually wanted to get into the army, but before that happened, there was an "incident" and he was injured--sword through the kneecap, still working out exactly what happened with that.

But anyway, I'll think a bit about what he might have to bring to Ally to fix, and which part of the slums he lives in. So yeah--I'll be working on beefing up my rough character sketch so I'll have some more concrete things to contribute.