Sunday, June 14, 2020

A measure of heroism

Okay! So apparently I have to keep track of stuff that’s happening so I guess I’ll just write things down.

It started a while ago, uh… I was coming home from my messenger job because I got a break and apparently there was a message for me. For me! I never got one, aside from my messenger friends everyone I knew was lived on those cliffs so what’s the point. But it was exciting! Apparently it was from auntie Kyrah who I didn’t know then. And she didn’t know me. Apparently she just knew I was magical somehow (still don’t know how she figured that out??? Who talks about me behind my back???) and asked me to join. Oh also she knew about my mom who I was looking for! Well that’s not a big secret, it’s why I wanted to be a messenger in the first place.

So uh, since that was what I was doing anyway I decided to go. My family was all excited and also a bit scared for me, they gave a bit of money they had, my brother lent me his spear. Only later I recognized it’s probably a soldier’s spear, don’t know how he got it. But it was nice to have something.

It was quite a while to travel but I got to the tavern thing. Hahaha, it was so weird meeting everyone! But Pachinko and Astria were nice from the start and Kyrah too. Ehh but then we apparently had to go kill a boar thing that was being bad to everyone… I was a little scared but it was cool that I could use my fire for something useful and no one minded that I was being magical for a change.

It was a shock though, a friend of Kyrah died there… I mean, it’s not that I never had people around me die… Sometimes the storm gets someone, or they become ill, or just too sad… But this time I actually saw it right there, I..

Also it was supposed to be a test to prove our worth somehow, and um… I didn’t actually hit the boar. Not once… I don’t think the others noticed, I actually got a golden arrow as a reward as if I did anything. I felt like I shouldn’t be there, like Kyrah made some mistake. The others really knew what they were doing too. Well, most of them.

But at least I got to go to the Oracle. Along the way we met a nymph whose name I forgot, she lives in a tree and was really nice.

At the Oracle’s temple Sydon apparently sent some soldiers and they just flat out attacked us!! Well Astria attacked first I think but I’m pretty sure they wanted us dead anyway. I remember it was so horrible there too, with all the soldiers and temple people being killed… I actually had the chance to kill a one but I couldn’t. I guess it sounds noble, but I don’t think that had something to do with it really, I just couldn’t. And there was also a door that attacked us and then also a carpet that was attacking me??? Like trying to choke me to death?? That thing doesn’t know sirens apparently! It wasn’t really a problem, just really weird. Dardanus made us these scarves out of it.

Oh and then the Versi the Oracle told me I was apparently Pythor’s son! You know one of the Five, the one about war and stuff. Ehh that was weird! I mean, I’m supposed to be on Sydon’s side, at least that’s what I’ve been told. I mean I never really liked the guy because so many sirens are sad because of him. I’m not supposed to be cheerful and drink and stuff, but it just feels wrong that we aren’t supposed to? So I don’t mind for myself that Pythor’s my dad, but uhh, I don’t know about my parents. My siren parents I mean, the ones that took care of me. It’s like, they love me a lot I think, but they also follow Sydon a lot. For now I just try not to think about it..

Anyway she also said we have to do three things for the prophecy. So we did a test and now there’s more tests or something??? Well it didn’t seem so hard, like drinking from a horn and lighting a fire somewhere. Oh and then we did something nice: We agreed officially to an oath of being a group!! Like we always will help each other and stuff. We had a little party over that, that was really nice. Well. It’s not like I really know them very well, at all, but at least we want to be friends? I think that was the point.

Well that’s enough for now bye!!!