Thanks for your kind words. I've never been too keen on the co-writing thing even when I had the time to do such a thing, but appreciate the offer. With [i]True Sangheili,[/i] I had to make up my own content more than I did with any other fan fiction before it - prior to the K5 trilogy, there was almost no detail on Covenant society and so most of it in this has been invented by me. I take inspiration from elsewhere all the time. Ahkrin, for example, was at first almost a carbon copy of the character Silk from David Edding's [i]Belgariad,[/i] or at least my attempt to emulate him. After a few chapters I decided to move away from that and gave him his own development (as I did with all the other characters.) These days as a writer, I tend not to be influenced directly by what I read, watch or listen to. Rather, I think about how something has affected me on an emotional or intellectual level etc, and then try to work similar traits into this if it fits the story arc. So yeah, most of this is, as you say, farmed from my own mind - aside from the general plot which is of course inspired by [i]Halo.[/i]