9. Public journal entry

[alexanderofny]

[Adrian is still less than a week into his loss but is already starting to come off more and more as an actual child. A rather proud, overzealous child, but still an actual child.]

[spoken into the journal, almost breathlessly excited and full of the accent he tries so hard to hide as an adult:]

I DID IT!

[In the background, one can faintly hear this sort of sound.]