i hadn't realized just how much the heart & hammer has become my home away from home and it hurt a lot to have to leave so quickly without knowing when we'll be able to return
i spent most of last night and today repacking saddlebags both literal and figurative
i made adjustments to medya's gauntlets and finished up my build notes
i prepared the usual set of spell tokens for medya to carry
i meditated on the nature of travel and adventure
i cried a lot
sending stone talks with dad always start with the most important information first – medya and i are safe and healthy
left unsaid: both "safe" and "healthy" are relative to what we've experienced
i save disturbing topics and details for sessions with ploughshare because they already know what it's like out here
i'll tell dad the vaguest sense of the bad parts but we focus on the positive and that helps me keep perspective
it's not all great but it's not all bad
ander reed is a fantastic host – he shared around some news and a sort of pipe i'd never seen before filled with sweetened dried apples
news of the wayfinders: boroman's doing poorly and the fall excursion has been pushed to spring
news of aundair: when queen aurala learned that prince "aral" invited sykes to stay she bit the sky ... but aral pointed at how breland invited him next as though that justifies anything
even while dead sykes is still enabling conflict
tomorrow morning we breakfast with morran
he wants to take us on a tour of 3 primes academy and i'm eager to see it!
we have to come up with travel plans for karrnath and that may take some time so we might slip in a visit to our friends in arcanix
i'm glad aundair's friendly to us and i really hope we can keep it that way
the less i hear the phrase "we can't go back there" the happier i'll be