Day 314

Okay, I need to regroup. Can I do that? Or is that a strictly plural activity? Geez, Ari, see what I mean? Anyway, whatever it is, here it is. Yesterday started fine, in the sense that nothing happened which was truly upsetting and unexpected. Sure I had to wait for an awfully long time, but I said my piece, and she encouraged me to leave. I'm not certain what the problem with her servants seems to be, but the one chap was certainly most helpful. Okay, so nothing, as I said, occurred oddly, which is to say that I say no reason to deviate from my precautionary measures. Once the soldiers who were sparring with Usires noticed me, they made every effort to hasten my discussion with him. They probably wished to let me conclude my business so that they might return to their practice. Anyway, he agreed, after I plied him with food, that magic is good in and of itself but very, very bad if it's in your enemy's hand. So today, we set out to accomplish my goal. Only, you see, it wasn't quite that simple, as this is the beginning of the weirdness and all. So before we leave Arden, Random's Trumping me to return to the castle, and eventually that's what happens. I guess that's why he's king and I'm not. Not that I'd want it. I don't even like being on the surface, much less the thought of ruling it. I think everyone in Amber should just jump in a lake. It might loosen them up a bit. Um, so I find myself in a room with Julian, whose wardrobe seems a bit less practical than his reputation might suggest. Now that's strange enough, but the mind bender is when he says he's Barnabas. Okay, see, the thing is that Barnabas is my dad, my real dad, from Chaos, and... Okay, so the important thing here is that I'm standing there with a person who's come all that way, and I never noticed he wasn't there. Mortally embarrassed by the lack of etiquette for dealing with this, I say "Hi" and flee into Shadow with Usires, who does a really quick job of finding volcanoes. As much as he complained about the heat, I've gotta kind of wonder how he knew where to find them. But that's why I wanted him along, 'cause he knew Shadow far better than I do, and besides he's big, and Dad did say that the Hendrakes were looking for Jesbys, and well I guess I'm kind of one. Um. But originally I just thought I could use some help. I didn't see the need to worry him about Dad's troubles until after we'd achieved our objective, and I'd conducted some really cool experiments that took awhile because I sort of didn't have a magic item which I wanted to melt down. Usires held onto his axe pretty tightly throughout. So anyway, this is where it got downright bizarre, because the Hendrakes attacked us. Okay, so that could probably have been expected, but the thing is that they were using a Jesby to attack us, and moreover that Jesby turned out to be my grandfather, Bartleby... You know, I think I'm picking up on a trend, here.... Anyway, I used a few Xenos and they kind of gave up and left. I think Usires was disgusted that he didn't really get to beat on them, so maybe the next time I get us into a tight spot I should let him have some fun. So long as I can prevent injury on our side, I guess that's only fair. Um. So anyway, Bartleby is talking to Mother, and she kept giving me these looks that make my insides crawl, so I've made my excuses and gone to bed. I think maybe I'll just stay here for a while until the universe settles down.

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