Yesterday marked the third year since my parents had been murdered. The past two years I spent alone, crying, and just walking through the day in a misty fogginess that lasted for many days. Yesterday…I wasn’t even sad. I felt…I felt nothing. That bothered me very much. So, I went to keep myself busy. I gave Layla a nice grooming and gave her some treats she doesn’t often get. I gave Cat a bath, he was being crazy which made me laugh.

In Mansig’s camp, when the night was well fallen, and the air was silent around the camp, Lusseriel was sitting by the fire. She had finished helping making new salves, and now she was left alone with her thought.

The rabbit was sleeping curled up in a side bag she had bartered with one of the men just to allow the animal to sleep out of the way without being a nuisance to track down.

It was still early enough in the year for a single day to go through various seasons. It had been dull and dark to start with, then the sun had graced the heavens with a bright light until hailstones started falling from a sky rapidly turning as gray as the cloak of the wanderer, Gandalf Greyhame. The ravens in the field to the back took flight from the ground they had been striding over, and made for what shelter the trees offered. 

To Denholm, Captain of the garrison in Bancross,

It has come to my notice that you have in the garrison cell one minor offender of the name, Criba. His master has been asking after his whereabouts, and as the man holds particularly entertaining dinners, I do not want the action of one of my people to cause him offense. 

"Why don't you go outside and play hm? Selena was looking for you yesterday and so was Brent. The weather should hold up and I have work to do." The boy swung his feet restlessly over the kitchen chair.

"Selena cries about everything Mother, girls are foolish, and Brent just wants to talk about his farm animals all day. What kind of friends are those?"

((neatly penned in Lumi-kieli))

There has been so much happening that I have been so tired or busy that I have not written about any of it, so I am going to get caught up and keep it brief.