Hey there, thanks for the long comment! I really love any feedback I get, and this was especially insightful. The FA project, especially the epilogue, really came from the heart, so to know it touched you (and even inspired you???) in some ways really means a lot...
also as for the barley/barely thing... nah I legit just didn't know how to spell. At all. Ppl interpreted as a pun but I was just incapable of spelling the word correctly for some reason. I was more careful with the spelling and wording for the epilogue, being that it was a smaller scale project so, it was fixed. xD