Wow, this is gorgeous. It's . . . I don't have the right words, and am going to have to reserve the right to come back and comment again when I do. Which will be anything but a hardship, since this is a story that's going to repay multiple readings. Under other circumstances I might wait until I could say something more coherent, but whoever you are, oh mighty Remixer, I didn't want you to have to wait until coherence returned to hear from me!

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I gibber, but I gibber with total joy.