I want to state right out front that the fault is with me and not the game itself, but I haven't played in days because I got
killed during the battle with
in the
.
I had actually found her twice on my own, and I was playing this game very slowly and painstakingly to try and catch everything because I am almost incapable of playing a game that I know has tons of easily-missable quests. Now that I'm sure that I've ruined that quest line, I feel compelled to go back and start a new game so that I can get it right this time, but I put a whole lot of time into the first part of the game and just don't have it in me to do all of it again.
I might put it away for a year and try to come back later, but it bummed me out so much that I messed up that quest line that I just put the game away immediately and lost all will to play it.