I believe I am going to have to make an appointment with Kite for new pants. Several, in fact, if my anima keep...misbehaving. Not that I am complaining, far from it. I certainly have the money to replace my clothes repeatedly ( Read more... )

It's past time to leave. It took some time, but Lord Miyabi is allowing me to rent his smaller guest house while he is away for the rest of the year. If the property is as I remember it, it should more than suffice until my home is rebuilt. Gakuto, Munehiro, I would suggest you pack what you have now. I would like to leave as soon as possible. Our ( Read more... )

Yuushi brought me this journal to write in. He said everything in my bedroom and office was burned up and nothing was really recoverable. Probably for the best...

I feel...better? I'm tired of sitting in bed. Tezuka, you're going to visit again, aren't you?

Aquila is a coward.

Surely you have something better to do, Yuushi, than send me all these invitations. I've told you I'm busy.

( private )

I have just been informed that my father has been murdered. The name 'Aquila' was written in blood on the wall of his room, and all of the maids and nurses I employed at the house are dead as well ( Read more... )

It's time to change some things...

( private )

Another dismissal, Sadaharu? Maids do not grow on trees, you realize.

Yuushi, I'm canceling our meeting later. Business matters, you understand.

( private )

I've opened several new chains of businesses around the kingdom and outlying cities, corrected mountains of mistakes made by incompetents, and spent a very delightful month with various members of the royal family. And what do I find when I've returned home? A smug little swan in my bed, ordering everyone about ( Read more... )

Once, the doors and halls and rooms
were all worlds, rested on my fingertips
comfortable and quiet

Each now tumbles, with deafening explosion
my hands empty, and all around me
a cacophony of chaos

Cursed bear

ooc: Sorry to all, I've been pretty sick this past week, but now I returneth with my boys and (hopefully) some restored vigor from ( Read more... )