Paintings and Airships

Turns out the animals wasn’t what I should have been worried about. Turns out Celrin’s past isn’t just coming for her, it came for all of us. And I spent most of last night attempting not to die. Eleonora spent most of the night trying to save my life. S̶o̶ ̶y̶a̶y̶ ̶s̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶m̶e̶!̶
 
Celrin did manage to kill and/or capture everyone who was after her. She's swift in the dark- though I'm guessing Nora could have told me that. I could tell she was upset about missing an opportunity to draw it out but at least she .. finished the job when we asked her too so we could get to Divasé in a timely manner.
 
Eleonora and I were able to meet with Commander Jean. He looked like he hadn’t slept in a year, though I suppose it was understandable by the look of his city. I really do hope we can help them. Those.. bird people aren’t people. They're a menace. He told us of one of their ship we can help defend, so we’re headed north again. Is this the farthest north I’ve ever been? I think so! (Hey, you have to get excited about something when life gets this dreary right?)
 
Oh! What with the almost dying I almost forgot my.. I guess it was a dream? Does it count as a fever dream if you don’t have a fever you just spent half the night almost dying? Anyway, I dreamt about that night with Rhea where she taught me how to paint my face, after that thing with the bugs. And when I woke up remembering her face I didn’t feel..guilty. And that was even the night her face got torn up. So, Maybe there is a thing to this adventuring thing. Maybe making new experiences gives you context for the old ones? Or maybe they just make you feel less. I wonder what I’d feel if I could remember Mom’s face.
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Turns out that it’s kind of hard to defend a ship at sea from ships in the air when you’re a tiny person on land with limited arcane “capabilities”. We…did what we could before running back into the woods. (This is everyone by the way- I wasn’t the only one who was useless from that far away) though it wasn’t long before they followed us.
 
Know what I am good at? Siphoning consciousness from people who I think would benefit from being undead. Long story short, I̶ We have an airship now. It took a couple hours, but I figured how to fly it. Because of course I did.
 
-w.