Er, Sir ... uh, um ... man who was talking about Festival food??

I made mashed potatoes!! Er, I made a lot of mashed potatoes! I thought well maybe if I was going to try it I should put it to ah good use so I made them for every single person I know here and oh my arm hurts from so much stirring and mashing but I think they turned out good!! I used butter and milk and salt and er well potatoes and took a bit around to everyone that I know and I think they all liked them very much~~

And I just wanted to let you know that~

Oh and ah a very very Happy Festival to everyone~ Doesn't this day just, hm, make you want to sing~~?

[Filter: Private, in Old High Dentorian]

this is smaller than you know ...
no bigger than a pebble lying on a gravel road ...

I ... I wonder if I should believe in signs ...

Ah ...

[Filter: Sir Vincent and Lady Brittany, in Trade]

I really don't think that these men you've set me to watching have anything worth seeing! I haven't ah found a single thing out of place yet and it's been a month!

Come along, come along, you jolly brave boys
There's lots of grog in the jar
We'll plough the briny ocean
With the jolly roving tar~!

I love these songs~~ They always make me want to dance!!

Well, today I was out, er, walking, and I wasn't really paying any attention to where I was going, and I tripped over this fellow! Oh, I felt so silly! He was carrying all these papers and they all flew everywhere! Naturally, I just I had to help him so I started gathering up all those papers -- oh and some of them even landed in the mud oh I still feel terrible -- and he ... er, well, I looked down at the papers while he was telling me that it wasn't my fault and he wasn't looking where he was going, either, and I saw what was on the papers and it was -- well, it was music!!

I always loved music ... er, I don't know why, but music has always ... made me happy~ Everyone tells me I have a very nice singing voice but oh I don't know if they're -- but that's not really ... er, I mean to say ...

He wrote the music!

I sang a few notes -- I can never help it. And he seemed so happy that I knew how to read his music and even more happy when I told him that I liked what he wrote and ...

Well, I suppose I mean to say, by all of this, that I think I've made a friend!

He wants for me to meet him for sandwiches, tomorrow! That sounds ... ah, well, it sounds nice. I've been very alone in this city, for the most part. And the only people I do Er ahah I shouldn't really ... So it will be nice to have some company!

[Filter: Lady Brittany and Sir Vincent]

Oh, but don't worry! I'm still working very hard! I haven't found anything yet, but ...!

[Filter: Private]

I know I'm doing a decent job so far. They don't see me and when they do they just smile and wave and nod and think that I'm just a friendly passerby on the road and I smile back and pretend that I am and ...~

They could have something to do with what happens to Tristan. They could have given the order for him to be killed.

But it just feels so dishonest ...

[Filter: Ian]

Er, hello ...~~

Er, well, at Lady B someone's suggestion, I spent today exploring Rechesa!! It's er a little strange, I've been here for so long and I've barely seen any of the city so ah it was actually very nice ...~

I went to see the nice houses in the wealthy quarter and that was very nice, because the buildings here are half like the buildings in Atsiria and half like the buildings in Dentoria and it was very different and ah strange and it felt like standing in a fairy tale, but not a sunny fairy tale, more like a Through The Looking Glass sort of fairy tale but in a good way!! Not in a, er, creepy way ...

Oh but then someone told me that I shouldn't be standing in the middle of the road looking at all the trimmings and they were probably right because I almost got hit a few times, so, er, well, I left them ...

I spent a little time in the market, too, but ... oh well to be honest, I don't like markets very much. I know that merchants are always trying to get the highest price from their customers no matter what and it just makes me uncomfortable knowing that someone could be getting scammed right beside me and I couldn't do a thing about it ...

Er and then it started raining. It rains so much at this time of year in this country! But it was, er, a nice rain, not a bad rain ...

... it was a nice day ...~

[Filter: Lady Brittany, Sir Vincent]

Ah neither of you have said anything to me in a while and I er just wanted to know if I'm supposed to be doing anything or do you need me for anything or ...???

[Filter: Private]

Er, that wasn't ... so bad ...

I wonder if they're going to find anything in all of that. I hope so ...

... or do I? I don't know ...

If they find nothing, that means that I've still gotten nowhere and I don't know anything and Tristan is still dead for no reason with no answers and that's ... well, that's just ... awful!

But ... I like so many of the people here. They're human just like me or anyone else I've ever known ... just like Tristan was. So long as I don't find anything, they can just keep being that. Just a group of people who I'm getting to know and who are nice to me and nice to one another ...

If they find something, they're not that anymore.

If they find something ... they're something horrible.

Though hell should bar the way ...

[Filter: Public]

Oh, some of the people nearby have been talking a lot about flooding lately ... er apparently it's quite bad a little further north. Thankfully we're on high ground here, but, oh, I home people are okay ...

I know people lose their homes to the flooding sometimes and, ah, that's just terrible.

I'll pray for them ...

[Filter: Lady Brittany, Sir Vincent]

Ah, well, I think I got everything that you were, ah, looking for ...

Ohhhh, I hope they don't notice someone was in their offices. I was very careful but well so I'm new at this and I'm sure I did something stupid!!

[Filter: Private]

I do feel a little better after talking to him ...

It's, ah, well, it's strange that I did. I don't really know him that well. But if I'd asked His Highness, I know he would have said that I was blameless and if I asked Tea I know she would have er said that I had to do things the right way and he was ...~

I didn't know what he would say and I suppose that's why ...~

and also ...

I feel more er resolved, though. I can do it, really. I can!

[Filter: Tea]

Ah hello ...~

You er always ask me how I am so I thought er I should ask you ... maybe??