Bylah has been a character in TEF for 2 & 1/2 years. It's a little mindblowing, when I think about it.

Because part of me wonders, 'have I really been here this long? Have I really wasted this much of my life on a deer, a character, that is not real?'

And I realize that's a rather fatalistic way to look at things, but above all else, I am a realist. I see things for what they are - not what they could be, not what they shouldn't be. Just what they are.

This is the way it is. Cut, dry, simple.

Fitter. Happier. More productive.

And then I realize that 2 & 1/2 years of my life have been spent with most of you people, in some way or another. And I know that in that time, we haven't always gotten along.

I tend to be upfront, honest, and downright blunt. Alexsander once said about me that she found me intimidating, that I wielded my wit and words against hypocrisy and unfairness. That I often called people out that others wouldn't. I can see where that may have made people unhappy with me, where I probably made enemies because I did that.

I suppose I just wanted to say though, that despite that, I never did it out of spite, per se. I've never attacked anyone because I didn't like them.

Because for two and a half years I've been part of this community.

And so have all of you.

♥