Aria Journal, 11/05

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Welp, that was odd. You know, everyone always warned me of the Fey realm, of the horrors that lay beyond the mushroom ring. I did not expect so much corn. Seriously why is there corn? Listen I know I met the Earl King but I’m still hung up on this. When I heard that everyone else had been invited to the Earl King’s realm for… saving him? I think? I was able to get a little bit of what happened by eavesdropping on the consortium but they seem a bit, preoccupied? And mainly I heard that some guys killed some guards from a neighboring area who had one of their members captured. So at least I know about that, can’t complain about having knowledge. Anyway yeah they all got invited and I kinda tailed along. Not like I had anything else to do, you know. Man my self preservation has gotten bad. I follow around these strangers out of what, self pity? I want to talk to them, I want to help but I’m just to scared to make any real impact. So I stay in the background doing jack all and go into the Fey Realm and almost die.

Once we got there it was not what I was expecting. When I imagine the Fey realm I think of trees that are blue and purple that grow with glow berries and pixies that play pranks not, corn. Now even writing this down might be dangerous but I don’t care at this point but I’m a little disappointed, I expected like, 50% more fairy lights. We were greeted by the Earl King and he declared that he wanted to see who was the best hunter, and who was the best prey. Which let me just say, very creepy. Then a pumpkin guy shows up and the King says he is the realms greatest hunter. He extremely intimidating and it was at this point I realized I was completely screwed. So we were all given 1 token and said that the person with the most tokens at the end of the day will be declared the best hunter and gets, a favor from the Fey King? Not going to lie it’s a bit hazy now. There were also 2nd and 3rd places but not like I was gonna win any of those. Then there were special tokens that if obtained got you a magic item, jumping a bit ahead in the story one dude got FOUR OUT OF FIVE OF THEM. Dudes STACKED! Now to gain these tokens we needed to go into… the corn maze. There were chests in there and monsters and thieves that I almost lost my arm to. So not my favorite place to hang out. I mainly spent my time outside in a little camp that we had set up. It was, nice. Homey. It’s that time of year for arbor recordationis, I don’t think anyone here celebrates. It’s almost the anniversary of Daisy’s death as well. Honestly I’m still a bit scared of fire after that happened. I want to go to her grave but I obviously can’t. I might play her favorite song tonight after everyone else has gone to sleep, is it weird that I still miss someone who died 4 years ago?

Anyway I did go into the maze a few times with a girl named… Moli? I remember an I being in there. Man I think my memory is getting worse too, but I’ve always been bad with remembering names. If anyone ever finds this journal they’re never gonna know who I’m talking about. She keeps a journal like me, which is pretty cool. We went in and looked around but not much good happened. Mainly the aforementioned thieves. Although I did get a good spell in against a thief with a group of other people. A funny moment would be when we (me and moli) figured out that by declaring we weren’t in the hunt the monsters would leave us alone, so we just kinda wandered around staying away from trouble and if trouble did find us we just be like, nah man not in the hunt. Also this sparked up my curiosity, do the Fey eat? Do they need to? So while we wandered we found one of the people in the group who was a Fey who was fighting and I just yelled at him, “HEY YOU EAT CORN RIGHT???”. After a bit we all came out of the corn and the awards were given.

Looking back on it it was pretty fun. I’m glad that I got to talk to some people. I’m back staring at the fire now, it’s warm. I miss home. I never thought I’d say that. But I miss the familiarity of loneliness. There are people who I want to talk to now, but I’m just so far from being able to talk to them. How do I know if I’m being annoying? If I’m rude? I don’t want to be a bother so I stay back but I still want attention, I want to get to know them. There are intricacies that I want to understand. Maybe one day I’ll get the courage to talk to people. Hopefully.

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