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Uktar 2, 1492 - day

Being Present

by Flicker Greenridge

Didn't expect to dream about Argus. Haven't in a long time. Huh, doesn't feel much like a dream. I guess they don't always feel like dreams though do they? Or maybe it's not. Maybe when I find Reidoth I'll ask about this magic? Or...What did I eat before lying down...anything with hallucinogens? Figure it out later. Enjoy getting to talk with him now.
 
Well.....he's not wrong. About everything. Ha, just like always. Will I ever get to his level of wisdom? Maybe, if I follow his words, if he keeps teaching me, if - ah. Gone again. At least he came back, if only for a moment, if only as a dream or a vision or a hallucination, at least he came back.
 
...Miibair? MIIBAIR!
 
no

No
 
NO
 
 
What is this?!
 
How do I get him back? Where - How can I - Did - ...Argus .....he came to warn me?
 
Breathe.
 
Ok.
Ok. He warned me. Miibair wasn't mine to keep. None of them are. Miibair left, they all left, but we had time together before. Have gratitude. I need to focus - appreciate what's here now, right? Right? Right. This....badger and baboon and...is that a mastiff? It's okay..it's new, it's different, it is what it is.
 
Commit to memory his warning. His Lesson? His words. Remember his words. Breathe. Calm down. Keep breathing. Things change. I shouldn't try to control the change, it's not mine to try to control, it's good, it's good. It's. Good.
 
Be strong....stay strong...don't cry....don't cry..don't cry.don't crydon'tcrydontcryd-don'tcccrrr -
 
.....Eethyl? and Damaia?
 
....They didn't leave?
 
....They came back......
 
They didn't leave! They came back!
They didn't leave.
 
And...if they leave...it's okay.
 
They're here now.
 
I'll be here now.
 
-
 
Mandrake, Wolf disappears so easily. Dunno if the Baboon can help him up there. Makes me uneasy to think of him on his own, this place gives me the creeps. Why is everything always underground and dark? Did Eethyl suggest living HERE? Or the MANOR!? ...Wonder if Harbin would deed us the Tap House. Or if Halia would if.... well we'll see.
 
We were not the best options here...the two smallest in the party trying to churn these big wheels? Ha! Oh well. Again, it is what it is.
 
Sweet! Open! But...how do we get out?
 
What the hollyhock is that hissing noise? UuhhhhhhEethyl better hurryup and getouttahere. I was just a mouse two minutes ago!
 
Here we go. Okay, remember, they're all here to help. Let the animals help. Let these people help.
 
Did Fortune just...tackle one of those things? To protect Keth? Wow....I guess he's probably a good dancing partner. Really should stop stepping on his toes.
 
AGH MY EARS. Where - aaaa, yes, he does enjoy that thunderwave doesn't he? As long as they're all safe now. Yes, stick together.
 
That's an awful lot of barking.
 
...That's an awful lot of baddies.
 
Maybe I'll bring the outside in?
 
 
 
 
 
 

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  1. Every Time
    Marpenoth 29, 1492
  2. Poor Judgement
    Marpenoth 30, 1492
  3. Second Thoughts
    Uktar 1, 1492
  4. Being Present
    Uktar 2, 1492 - day
  5. Getting Through
    Uktar 2, 1492 - night
  6. Organizing Ideas
    Uktar 3, 1492 - part 1
  7. Strange Happenings
    Uktar 3, 1492 - part 2
  8. More Surprises
    Uktar 3, 1492 - part 3
  9. Shell Games
    Uktar 3, 1492 - part 4
  10. Clipped Notes
    Uktar 4-6, 1492
  11. Logging Camp
    Uktar 6, 1492
  12. Years Ago
    Years Ago
  13. During Watch
    Uktar 7, 1492
  14. The Band
    Marpenoth 2, 1492
  15. Of Apples
    Uktar 8, 1492
  16. In Town
    Uktar 9-11, 1492
  17. Meeting Falcon
    Night of Uktar 11 - Night of Uktar 14
  18. Woodland Walk
    Uktar 15-16, 1492
  19. Mad Manse
    Uktar 16, 1492
  20. Still Up
    Night of Uktar 16, 1492
  21. Processing Change
    Late Uktar 16/early Uktar 17, 1492
  22. Three Down
    Uktar 17, 1492
  23. New Debt
    Uktar 18, 1492
  24. To Return
    Uktar 19-20, 1492
  25. Kindling Papers
    Morning of Uktar 21, 1492
  26. Light(ning) House
    Uktar 21, 1492
  27. Cloudy Mind
    Morning of Uktar 23, 1492
  28. Pip Stonehill
    Uktar 24 1492
  29. Herbal Teas
    Marpenoth 10, 1485
  30. Ice Wall
    Uktar 26, 1492
  31. Going Back
    Uktar 28, 1492
  32. An Ending
    Feast of the Moon, 1492