after the harmonization ritual i spent much of that day thanking everyone profusely and running around and testing every little thing and taking notes
medya and i spent the rest of it exploring my newest sculpture
between improved embodiment and the pride of accomplishment it was pretty much the best day of my life so far and there were happy tears for both of us
but the next morning had us up early to take the lightning rail toward fairhaven
when the train started up i nearly faceplanted because i wasn't ready
imagine your front legs or whatever you have falling asleep then waking up tingling and weak for a few moments but instead it all happens in the span of a fraction of a second
in triplets that repeat every couple seconds
apparently forged feel the same effect and some get it worse than others depending on how their cores are tuned
and i cannot carry a tune
medya reminded me i'd have four days of perfect opportunity to write a letter to my sire so i spent longer than expected doing exactly that
i also took a couple window-paper pictures of the pair of us and the whole group
i lit my sending candle and let the flame deliver the pages to the paired candle in my sire's workshop
none of the others in the group had seen a sending candle before so i suppose i can understand why that did them a startle
other than that this has been a comfortingly boring trip so far and the view of "aundair" – wine country! – has been amazing
after the first day or so my legs stopped throbbing as much so i've done some more design sketches for medya's gauntlets
i know i said i'd take a break but this isn't really like work and i'm still full of newly-harmonized euphoria so i just can't help it
i can't wait to see her as happy as i am right now