with a face like this

[Filter: Private]

Ah, lucky, lucky Cerise. She must be so terribly excited to see her family, not to mention the healer as well! I'm sure this healer will have the answer to her problems. She just has to. Wouldn't it be a relief to her and Rylan and all the family if she could give Rylan a child? And Cerise is a born mother, I'm certain that if Aaron sees her again, he will just clap his hands and laugh, that is how pleased he will be~ Isn't that right, darling?

Hee, he's developed an adventurous side since we arrived in Eblar. He's started walking, and I have watch him so carefully so I can bat his hands away from anything he shouldn't touch. And oh, he's started to string some words together that don't entirely make sense, but he does manage a "hello". Oh, I hope Cerise will be back in Allba when we visit, she will be amazed to see how much Aaron has grown.

[Filter: Private]

I wish he wouldn't talk to me. I told him that he should spend his efforts in resting, but he just simply insists on speaking to me as if he's known me all my life and making the most forward assumptions. It is utterly presumptuous and ungentlemanly and I won't encourage it.

[Filter: Private, in Atsirian]

Things have finally settled down. All but that nasty business with the Prince ... of course, we hardly need to worry about that, do we?

I'm sure they'll find him in no time at all~

[Filter: Jordan, in Trade]

Hello~

I hope you're all taking care of yourselves, out there~?

[Filter: Jace]

You must be terribly happy to have her back, dear~

Though, I do hope you won't be telling me that you've been spending every waking moment with her~?

You do need a break every now and again, I'd say~

[Filter: Zach]

Hey, did you hear about what happened with Lady Eve?

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[Filter: Private, Kilian]

It's still strange. I'm having a wonderful time here, of course, but...hmm, maybe it's just my imagination, but Aileen seems...more open with Nansi, than with me. Then again, Nansi's always been the more outgoing one, maybe I need to be a little less shy. I hope I haven't seemed unapproachable...

[Filter: Aileen]

So, they're pretty nice. I'm trying not to be weird, I hope it's worked.

You -- you're kind of different with Hana than you are with Nansi, though. Maybe I'm wrong? I'm pretty sure I'm not, though, you act really different. Hana's just trying to be nice.

Summer is awful this far north. I always wake up early in the mornings because it's so bright. It wasn't like this in Aartyn at all.

I don't know how people can spend their whole lives with summers like this. I think I liked it better in winter. It was dark but at least you could sleep.

[Filter: Private]

What was he thinking.

How could he have --

Dragons, why would he have done that? Didn't he know how it would end? Didn't he realize that I'm married?

Didn't he know what it would -- do to me, to see his face again?

Pathetic little asswipe, comes up here drunk off his face and tries to ... tries to what? What was he even -- did he really think that when he said that I would just take Mal away from her father and ... and ...

... yeah, Davan, you should have said yes. You really should have.

But the window for that ... it's closed.

[Filter: Ree]

Hi, I, uh ... can we talk? Something ...

I'd really like to talk.

Okay, I think -- I think we've got to be getting close now, the trail's really fresh. Does anybody see anything? Anything?

Lady Isanae. While I'm sure you must be disappointed that Lady Philippa has decided to locate herself elsewhere, surely you must be pleased at the fact that now we have even more time to spend together.

Shall we have a private dinner again tonight?

Ugh, Miss Mianne. Think I'll be a tad late today, if that's all right. Was up a bit late last night and now my stomach's being right awful to me.

I'll try to make it in anyways, though. Wouldn't wanna leave you high and dry.

[Atsirian]

I ... there's so much to do. I wish Varnes hadn't misplaced his journal, but perhaps I should invite him over to talk about this ... but perhaps it's best if I do this by myself. That will -- it will be difficult, but if I

Ah, I -- I apologize. I simply started writing, and forgot to filter... You'd think it would be easier for me to remember, with how long I've had this book, but ...

Ah. I'm sorry, again.

[Filter: Private]

That


That went about as well as could be expected.

Dragons, what was I thinking would

I -- need to get out of here. As soon as possible, I need to ...

[Filter: Private]

I ah ...

... I really don't know how you ah ... how you expect me to not think any differently, sometimes, Robin ... when you ... you keep ...

... you --



Why do you have to be so ... so ...

You make it difficult for me, you know ... by being so wonderful ...

[Filter: Private]

Ugh.

Yeah, learning to shoot a bow is all well and good, but it's not going to do me much benefit when someone's all up in my face. It's been too long since I've really worked on learning skills that are going to benefit me in that situation.

No one is ever going to -- I need to hard to kill. I need to be impossible to kill.

I need to be better than good, I need to be fucking deadly.

When you're fighting a war, that makes you a solider, and that means that you've got to know what you're doing. That means that you need to be terrifying. Who knows what could have been different if I'd just figured that one out earlier ...

I can't slack off on this. I just can't.

[Filter: Fayre]

Hey, can I bug you for something?

HI!

Everybody! I'm not dead!!

Okay so uh I really don't know what to say or where to start so uh I'm just going to ramble, I guess! I'm okay, I'm not hurt or anything like that. A couple of bruises and stuff but that's it.

I started asking for a journal as soon as they unblindfolded me but they kept telling me over and over that I couldn't have one and no matter how many times I asked they weren't going to give me one and oh well if you want one so bad what the hell do you want it for? But I'm good at annoying people until they give in, and I think they thought that there was no harm in it, so they finally gave me one and here I'm writing.

I really don't know what's going on. I don't think these guys are normal brigands, though. They all call the guy who's in charge "sir." I don't know.

I can't say much about where I am because I don't have a clue. They put a blindfold on me for like two weeks or something and only took it off when I slept. They finally stopped putting it on but now I don't know which direction we're headed or where we're going on relation to anything else ...

I don't really know what good writing is going to do but I feel so much better now that I can write. I've felt really ... alone. Yeah ...

Are you coming to rescue me???