I was SO happy when I saw that you tried it, Flor!! Haha, I'm glad that you enjoyed it! Ohh, I'm happy that the story left you with that impression! Indeed - the somewhat mixed feelings/ambiguity was definitely what I was going for! Thank you for the compliments!! I did try to make Karamu a bit more polished than previous, so I'm glad it shone through!!
(AH if you don't mind, could you remove the spoilers from this comment though? I don't want people being spoiled too easily if they scroll down here!)
nonono I'm so happy you posted this here so I could reply!!!