First, happy birthday. Second, you rock that death scene, man. And third, I have no problem if you're gone for a few days, I just like to be warned about it once or twice so I know I haven't been abandoned.
Hm... then how about this. We start something new, just with Ana and David, for the moment. We can add others later on, if we want. I can futz around with my ideas to make them work without having the characters travel, if I need to. But we can loosely follow the idea from before of David's human lover dying somehow and he jumps on the Ana train after that.