[Session 44] Journal Entry

by Robyn Stormwalker

The journal is mostly written in a cipher that is a mix of Bastion's three official languages: Common, Dwarvish and Elven. There are also occasional pages in Thieves Cant, like this one, though there are occasional words in other languages. The penmanship compared to similar pages is sloppy but not illegible. [Common, {Thieves Cant}]

Living is more than surviving. Surviving isn’t enough [This line is written in Common, scrawled across the top of the page, roughly underlined and written over several times to emphasise it]

{I’m too tired to write this properly, but my head is spinning too much for me to sleep. Hopefully getting these words out will help, and I can make better sense of this another day.}

{I still can’t believe I’ve found [there are words hastily scribbled out here to obscure it]. I can’t commit that to paper, but I know what I mean. I’m still shocked, and I bloody wish Penny had told me earlier so I could have least been a bit prepared.}

{For the first time in a long time, I find myself thinking about tomorrow, but also what has happened in the past. This place couldn’t have been too different from Bastion all those centuries ago - all kinds of people, working together to survive. The stories of the Shepherd, and others of the First Council, all point towards a Council that cared for its people - of course they’ve been embellished and gilded over time, but the Bastion of today has strayed a long way from that dream that history painted.}

{There has to be a way for Bastion to do more - but my head is spinning trying to think of how. This isn't what I'm good at. Give me something to shoot or a place to find, sure, but this is how to handle people. More than just leadership that [ words are scribbled out again ] just seems so good at]. This is politics, and I’ve no idea how to change that.}

{The system we have just doesn’t work the same as military supply lines… though maybe it should. Why do we have luxuries in Bastion, with some even the privilege of choice of what they eat, while some go without? How many more could the N’umo’ner support if everyone just had what they needed, and not more? There has to be a better way.}

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