[Filter: Private]

I wonder if Ren liked Harcha. Sometimes I do miss the smell of grapes ...

Well, not just grapes. Grapes don't really have a smell until wining season. I don't know. The country in general, I guess. It's sort of --

Blah, this is totally coming out all wrong. It's not like that. I like Floran, I love Floran. I don't want to go back to Harcha like ever. This isn't some secret plea for life to come and sweep me away back to the inn where I can wait tables and help Mark with inventory, kill me now. I like this better. This is better.

But Floran just doesn't smell the same. It always smells like ... I don't know, people. I love people, I just ...

Fresh air, I guess.

Whatever, this is even more pointless than I knew it would be when I wrote the filter. I don't care.

[Filter: Private]

Heh, well ... why not! It's nice to see Eri with a guy who isn't like ... yeah. This one actually seems to like her. A lot, I think. He's so cute when he does things for her. And she really does seem to drink it up ... that's good, too. I mean, ever since Reiz

... I'm glad.

I hope it lasts. Yeah.

[Filter: Public]

Hey everybody, I wrote a song! It's my first song ever. I'm calling it "Treetops" and I've put a lot of work into it. I can't really share the tune over the journals because I wouldn't even know where to start writing down music, buuuut I think I can preview the lyrics and you guys can give me some feedback.

Here we go, it starts like this ...

ERI AND ARTHUR
IN A TREE
K-I-S-S-I-N-G

I think I want to keep the rest a secret for now~

[Filter: Private]

Whoa.

... like, seriously?

[Filter: Public]

Yeah! So! ... Kirk seems nice!

[Filter: Private]

Maybe I shouldn't have

Ugh! Whatever!

[Filter: Mark]

So, uh, hey! What's going on up there? I haven't seen you or Ella or even that Kim girl writing at all for a while now, and a girl starts to worry! Fires race through Harcha and burn you to the ground? Did you get eaten by dragons~?

[Filter: Ella]

You know what?

Not everybody is you! Not everybody gets their enjoyment from working and micromanaging and controlling. Some of us just want to stand outside in the rain, and climb on top of buildings, and get drunk on crappy wine nobody likes and sing dumb songs, and play cards with friends. When was the last time you played cards with your friends? Oh, that's right, you don't have friends. I don't want your life!

If being useless and a big baby means laughing sometimes and being able to put your feet on a table without panicking that you just watched it, then I'll be a big useless baby!

You're not my mother, you know. You're not.

[Filter: Private]

I hate it. I hate it, I crapping hate it, but I have to admit that yeah, okay, maybe, maybe ... maybe she has a point. Maybe. I don't -- I don't know.

I just --

I don't know.

[Filter: Eri]

So, like --

I didn't bring this up when we were talking yesterday because you were really upset about that whole Col thing, and that's cool, but if you're maybe calmed down a bit today, I like ... sort of have something on my mind and I'd really like to talk about it and get an honest opinion from you and yeah.

[Filter: Eri]

Okay! So like, I'm really not a great cook and totally have nooo idea what I'm taking to this wedding thing on Sunday. Like, I've been thinking about it and I can't come up with anything!

Do you want to cook together? You can give me ideas and help me out? Or maybe you can just make two things, and I'll play kitchen assistant, and we'll pretend one was me?

Whatever! I don't know. Rose Day was always Mark's least favourite day because he had to eat my pies.

[Filter: Mark]

Haha, so like, are you going to sleep with that girl? Cause personally? I wouldn't. She's Kanemorian, she could have been anywhere. What if you catch something? What if you get the clap?

Don't tempt fate~

[Filter: Private]

Ugh, I hate Rose Day, now.

I mean, I always hated Rose Day! But now ... I don't know. Neither of us are saying it, but Eri and I are both thinking about Reiz, and it's this big stupid gulf between us that nobody wants to acknowledge but either of us can ignore! It's impossible to ignore, I mean ... yeah.

Dragons.

It's so stupid, Mark has somebody. Mark! Mark, who never leaves his room! How can Mark get somebody, even if it's just somebody messing with him, before me? Ugh.

Is it so ... crazy, that I'm just lonely? I get the feeling, sometimes, like I shouldn't be. Like, I'm way too cool and smooth and awesome to be something like lonely, right? I don't get lonely, I get awesome!

I am lonely.

I really, I don't know. I really want somebody. I really wanted Reiz, but, yeah, that ship has more than sailed. But I just want somebody.

Never had a real boyfriend in my life. What the hell is that?

Blah.

Stupid Rose Day.




And I really, really miss home. And I really, really don't want to go home. Whatever.

[Filter: Eri and Lenore]

Hey! I'm going out! If I don't come back in two hours I was probably knifed in an Ashburne Ave alleyway! But the good news is that if I do come back, it'll be with a bunch of gold, which I'll use to treat you both to something~

Now aren't you curious where I'm going~?