Nin don't worry about commitment here, seriously.
Seekers was more than the sum of any one writer, it was full of options and plot potentials. If people are edgy because some people have vanished from the ether and don;t want to carry on, we shoyuld maybe think about it as a jumping off point for those charictors that have more in them maybe?
For my own part, Kalin and Woman of Secret Shadow are the options. Dindraug as a charictor is a bit tricky to write as I wanted Seekers to be his final song. I had no idea how he would get to Valinor, either sail or via Mandos, but he was not going to step foot on Middle Earth again. That was part of the plot that Alandrial and I worked out way back in the mists of time
So, what do people think? We could start something new with the same charictors. I can see our two pirates had some interaction in the past that would be fun to explore. Tibo I am not sure of as he came into the plot on his first trip out, or was it...... Jae, Areanor et al can fit in anyplace I guess. After all, the ship had not yet got out of the Gulf of Lune. We could start with a shipwreck.....
Or we could carry on, and have Alandriel asleep through it. At our normal rate for this plot I am sure she will surface before we pass another day
Just tossing ideas out into the void like spent dwarfs, see what the net catches.
Any takers.....