KINDRED - Re-Upload - COMPLETE STORY (Patreon)

So, apparently the editing process bugged the hell out of that last file I uploaded.  Really, truly sorry for that.  It reads fine on certain things like Word, but horrible on others, like Patreon's reader and some ipad stuff, apparently.  I had no idea, because I was opening it in Word.

I cannot get an rtf to work post-edits, so you'll all have to make do this time with a word file.  If anyone knows a work-around for this weird issue, I'd love to hear it.

Here's the blurb from the initial post -

This has eaten up a lot of time over the last month and a half, but it's finally, FINALLY done.

This is it, the absolute final cut.  This file contains both 'Kindred-North' and 'Kindred-South', the two halves of this two part series.  If you've just joined this Patreon lately and have no idea what you're looking at, here's what you need to know about this series - 

 'Kindred' is a Historical Fiction / Adventure / Romance set in the Red  Lantern world, roughly 4-5 years before the events of Red Lantern, the  graphic novel. It tells the story of Finnegan and Tulimak, two strangers  from opposite ends of the world brought together by circumstance, and  their journey across the Carvecian frontier. Kindred's focus is on the  idea of what constitutes a 'family', versus 'lineage'. Kindred will  contain, as most of my stories tend to, adult themes, including -  violence, sexual situations, furry-world equivalents of colonial  exploitation and specism, homophobia and familial abuse (obviously,  things our protagonists will be combating, not reinforcing). If any of  this is subject material you feel you aren't up to, it might not be for  you. 

KINDRED IS A STAND-ALONE STORY.  You do NOT need to have read any other Red Lantern novel to digest and enjoy this, although I must warn you, I've been told RL books are a black hole of lore many have never escaped from.

I want to again thank everyone who was a part of the beta-reading process for this novel, who came on streams and most importantly, commented and kept my spirits up while I wrote it!  I live for my little fan community here, you all keep me sane.  I love to hear what you love, what you hate, what you want to see. . . feedback is what encourages me most.  And I got a lot of that for this one.  You're all amazing, and you made this book happen as much as I did.

This last bit here is just a simple plea.  I do not dispense my Patreon images with huge watermarks on them, or my stories via a link-share process, or some other form of gate-keeping.  I know asking is probably pointless, but seeing as this is an entire novel I'm posting before it's even up for print, I'm going to ask anyway.  Patreon is literally my ONLY form of income right now, even merchandise sales are becoming increasingly difficult because of the issues with the USPS.  Please, please, please. . . if you enjoy anything I do, do not post my writing/art on other sites.  I ask this being well aware that someone, somewhere will, but I want to make this as clear as I can - when you do that, not just to me but to any creators on Patreon, ESPECIALLY right now, you are removing creators from this fandom, and curtailing any future works you might have gotten to enjoy from them.  I can only surmise if you're sharing my stuff for free out there on sites it's not supposed to be on, it's because you think people might want to see it.  If you want there to be more, PLEASE STOP.  This fandom is losing artists at an alarming rate right now.  Art theft is essentially pissing in your own drinking water.  Please think before you act.

Sorry for that.  I get notified at least once a week that my art is being stolen and in some cases, re-sold or attached to other people's projects without my permission. On the whole, there is nothing I can do about it except beg for it to stop.  So I'm doing so.  This story in particular was a huge labor of love, during an extremely difficult time.  I will eventually post the whole of it for free on FA ANYWAY, so at least wait for that?

Thank you again to everyone who, y'know. . . isn't doing that stuff.  99.9% of you are always so respectful and wonderful.

Please stay safe, stay healthy, wear a mask, and we will all weather this storm together.