Reflections : Ula's Diary
Strange, these twistings and turnings. Is all of Amber filled with madmen? Is it just that I have gone fully, irrevocably mad?
Mother is in full voice. My brother has left home. She is attempting to cling to what she has left; even from here, I feel her claws raking my exposed flank.
I am not without friends. I am not without alternatives. But I do not know how to protect myself from mother in a panic. I never did, though.
A tally, then. Let us examine what is at hand, the cards which have been dealt me, good or ill.
Princes, self-styled or otherwise : 2
Princes who I refuse to ask anything of : many more than 2
Ambassadors : 2
Selkies : 1
Abandoned children in my care : 1
Dinner dates, completed : 2
Dinner dates, still to be completed : 2
Almost complete losses of composure : 1 (one too many)
Kisses received : 4
Kisses known what to do about : 0
Frustration with men, romance, love, marriage : rapidly approaching the infinite
Friends : ?
I do not know why people make tallies. They seem useless, to me.
Mother is in full voice. My brother has left home. She is attempting to cling to what she has left; even from here, I feel her claws raking my exposed flank.
I am not without friends. I am not without alternatives. But I do not know how to protect myself from mother in a panic. I never did, though.
A tally, then. Let us examine what is at hand, the cards which have been dealt me, good or ill.
Princes, self-styled or otherwise : 2
Princes who I refuse to ask anything of : many more than 2
Ambassadors : 2
Selkies : 1
Abandoned children in my care : 1
Dinner dates, completed : 2
Dinner dates, still to be completed : 2
Almost complete losses of composure : 1 (one too many)
Kisses received : 4
Kisses known what to do about : 0
Frustration with men, romance, love, marriage : rapidly approaching the infinite
Friends : ?
I do not know why people make tallies. They seem useless, to me.