Session
59
Day 313
Thought I'd write my thoughts, this morning. Although often pleasant,
they are rarely so inspiring. See, yesterday I decided that it was time
for a change, and here I am, mind all set on one already. Cool, huh? Oh,
sure, it looked discouraging there for a while. I mean, I thought it
would be a nice bit of symbolism if I had that lie detector spell removed
to signal my grand new direction in life. It was fun while it lasted,
though. So with these thoughts in mind, I approached Riftvan Vetch, as he
was the only resident expert in Fairy Magic, and I had reasons for not
looking elsewhere. Martin has explained to me that I was misguided in my
attempt to put Ariana at ease, but this information came too late to
prevent a quick trip to the Surface King, who didn't really help but
managed to convey to me precisely why he has not his son's respect. So I
trump Laughter, an action which I had seriously attempted to avoid, and I
can't quite bring myself to ask her to drop everything and come to Amber
to remove a spell to which I'd become accustomed anyway. I mean, it was
just a passing fit of symbolism to begin with, nothing which warranted
this much bother, and another gesture would serve just as well. But I got
her curiosity up, so she trumps me back, and I end up dining with her,
Lyss, Felix, and Foster in her shadow home (odd place that, but the
flowers were nice). Foster makes an ass of himself, giving me a break for
an evening, and all parted amicably. Felix has forgotten or forgiven his
complaint to my person, and I ignored our hostess admirably. But this is
the thing. All of them were in school. Felix and Laughter were going to
college and working on degrees. I'm still not clear on that, but
apparently it's esteemed, and their interests seem worthy. This gave me
the thought. It's been boiling in my head for a while now, ever since my
talk with Random over the whole trial business. The surfacers seem prone
to irrationality, and no one seems inclined to correct this trait. I
shall take it upon myself to learn how to assist them in regaining their
senses. And the first thing which I must do this fine morning, my new
symbolic gesture, is to make peace with Ariana. Then I'm going to set
about some preventative measures so that she'll have no cause to regret
any future rash actions.
"Outrageous Fortune"
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