Author's Note: Hi everyone! So I think I owe you all an explanation. Things have happened… and I know that sounds very annoyingly vague, but I can't go into any more detail for the sake of my health. I would really love to explain what happened but I fear that if I read this note in the future then the pain will start all over again. As I type this I'm actually experiencing some of the symptoms so I have to make this quick- this is why it's taken me so long to get to writing this note.

Please try not to be mad at me, although I understand if you are. NO I am NOT cancelling the story. However I AM putting it on a temporary hiatus.

This was pretty inevitable, but this is something that needs to happen. I've been writing this story and nothing but this story for over two years now, and when you write the same thing for two years without variation then it starts to get boring. So to rekindle my enthusiasm for this story, I need to take a break and write something else!

That's right- I may be putting this story on pause, but I am going to be working on a new story! You read that correctly: Sassymouse does indeed write other things aside from the adventures of Rainbow Dash and an assortment of OC's I seriously regret making.

I know I'm disappointing a lot of you, and I don't know when the hiatus is going to end, but I do hope that my new story will be to your liking. Keep an eye out for it. ^u^

And that's not all I'll be doing! I've started a DeviantArt account where I shall post reviews of MLP episodes just like I've done in the author's notes in a few of these chapters. My account name is Exidas-The-Red for any of you who are interested.

So is that a fair exchange? Dashing and Soaring for a new story and a review account? Well… okay I can tell that some of you are mad. I can practically feel the red hot rage emanating from a couple of you right now… it's kinda freaking me out.

Anyway, please forgive me. I really did try to continue with the story but I literally couldn't. I know a lot of people have been saying "wah wah 2016 has been the worst year of my life wah wah wah!" but it was seriously the worst year of my life. I'm doing my best to recover from what happened to me, and moving onto a new story will hopefully help me get completely better. And if you want to support me along the way then feel free to review on my next story too. You have no idea how much I appreciate every review I've gotten and every view my story has had so far, and I hope that when I get back to writing Dashing and Soaring that you have the patience to pick up where we left off.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for all of the support you have shown me so far. Thank you to the reviewers, thank you to the amazing friends and folks I've met through this story, thank you to all of the readers who are too shy to review (yeah I know you're there ;P). Consider this the MLP mid-season hiatus of Dashing and Soaring. I'm not giving up on this thing. I said that I would see it through to the end, and I will.

Para-Promise. ^u^

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It might take a year,

It might take a day,

But what's meant to be,

Will always find its way.