A Deadly Dragon

K. Soo.. didn't get to ask her about the Lexicon. I was too busy dying from the DRAGON that she sicked on us. That's right, her black grown-ass dragon. And I can't even really do the only cool thing after that happens and say 'I fought a dragon' because I didn't even fight it! Really, basically Noppa did. I just ran to Eleonora to do that life transfer spell because she went down and then before I know it, the fucking thing took me down with one wing, and kept me down with a foot.
 
We tried to talk to her! I.. Well I don't think it was horrible. It was fine. Eleonora isn't the most passionate speaker, but she's precise, and truthful (well, we had to be) and we all spoke on our areas of expertise regarding Northal. She seemed rather bored of it all, and eerily...well frankly, she's scary. We were in a giant room that just turned into the forest around Northal. SPECIFICALLY, it was the one around Northal. That we all know! I can't even fathom how a spell like that works let alone how to preform something like that, like it's just happening in the back of your mind with so little effort.
 
So it's been a day now and I'm trying to figure out why I'm so mad at her. I dunno, maybe I'm embarrassed.. maybe? Just a little. She obviously didn't respect us so maybe I should of just pretended, and talked to her like an equal..She couldn't have lost much more respect for me if I did that anyway. I mean, it wouldn't have been pretending because we are both wizards right? She's just a world-rewound one. And I.. I made a frozen red heart on my very first time with the Shape Water spell. That was pretty impressive. I should have just asked her my questions and if she didn't answer she didn't answer, it's not like she'd do something worse than make us fight her dragon.
 
Well, we impressed her enough in the end I guess, she quickly Cadgegaped us back to Northal, a much welcome sight in my eyes. What's not welcome is that we're back a month later than we should be. knew time felt weird on that island! Nobody else seemed to care, but I guess none of them have a spell to research that they're already behind on.
 
Eleonora and I went home immediately to check on her store and mope in bed, respectively. I was cross referencing our library with Lian's note when she came in. Too awkward to leave immediately so she stayed and we had another awkward conversation. Yo̶u̶ ̶g̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶h̶a̶l̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶l̶i̶f̶e̶ ̶d̶u̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶d̶r̶a̶g̶o̶n̶ ̶f̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ ̶W̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶m̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶!̶?̶ ̶Yeah sure Wren, just do what you always do, keep pretending there's nothing wrong. We're going to town together tomorrow, guess what we'll find? I'm betting one more awkward conversation.
 
I miss her.
 
Speaking of awkward conversations, I saw Achen at the Institute. He was weird, as usual, but even weirder than normal. Why is everyone being weird? (Maybe I'm being weird and I'm not realizing it) I only slightly got his attention when I mentioned meeting The Wizard of the Lake. After that he just said 'talk to you another time' and ran away. Yeah, vying for attention from an older male father-figure, been there, done that, no thanks.
 
I did find a little about a, well, maybe cult-like religion around a God in the Eriosian Pantheon but I couldn't tell is he was a God of Death or a Dead God...or what the difference is. But the word Nekros was there. It was all written in Eriosian. I'll probably need Eleonora's help with it because.. of course. I wonder if she'll come back to The Institute with me. I wonder if I can avoid Achen while she's here because she's much too perceptive- or wait, maybe she can tell me what's going on with him. . Also confirmed that diamond used as catalyst of some sort in spellwork; to bring a soul back to a corpse, or keep a soul present as something else goes on with the body.
 
So, at least I have something to start with...when I check next in a few minutes.
 
-w.