I expect simple behaviours here. Friendship, and love. Any advice should be from the perspective of the person asking, not the person giving! We have had to make new membership moderated to combat the huge number of spammers who register
It's an excellent story, well constructed, well told and well written. I commend it to you.
If you have been enjoying it but have been too shy to say so do please tell the author... He put a lot of effort into writing it, and I for one would hope to see him post future stories here.