[Filter: Private]

...I suppose I should probably get this over with. I can't defend this place properly if I keep getting urges to run back home and check up on everyone, after all.

Still. It is a little nerve-wracking. What will I do if she gives me bad news, after all?

I can only hope everything'll be alright, I guess.

[Filter: Miss Louie]

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Ah, these black dragons everyone's been talking about.

Are they...hard to defeat? For a normal human, I mean.

[Filter: Private; Language: Isaacian]

[Tap-tap]I was thinking about that lady again. She definitely looks like that girl from my village. Same face and name and, from what I can remember, a similar attitude. It's the hair though, that really gets me. I mean, those two - they're both the only people with silver hair I've ever even seen before. ( Read more... )

[Voice: on]

Um.

Uh.

Riva...? Right?

Um.

Hi.

It was educative.

I did learn something.

I learned how powerful I need to be in future.

Not just for my dream, but to be of any use at all to the army. I must become stronger.

Time to do better. I won't be accused of being naive again.

"Naive" huh?

Hmm.

[Filter: Private; Language: Isaacian]

Took me ten tries to hit one target with an arrow.

...Down from fifteen, but still. Annoying.

Won three out of five practise fights.

I need to work harder. I need to beat everybody.

I can't lose.

[Filter: Public; Language: Basic]

Isn't it annoying when you don't do as well as you were hoping?

[Filter: Private; Language: Isaacian]

Magic is expensive. And will take a year or longer to learn.

But a soldier with sword skills that would make Odo proud and amazing magical powers?

That would be impressive. They'd make me a general for sure. I'd make everyone at home proud. I might even get into the history books.

[pentap pentapWorth it ( Read more... )

[Loooong pause. Ink drop.]

Is magic hard to learn?

What an utterly intriguing birthday present.