Koal's Journal
Our Final Battle
This fight was rough.
Wyserias wasn’t a big deal. Ryyan shoved magic bugs in his ears (and passed out in the process), and the took him out of the fight. His demon was more than ready to kill all four of us, but we never gave him the chance. I got to ride a pendulum through him! He exploded and it nearly killed me! I think Alice dragged me out. That was nice of her.
…I’m still shaken up from what happened afterwards. The Puppetmasters got to Pash. But he wasn’t mindless, like the other victims I’d seen. Not only was he aware, he was trying to convince us that he deserved this. He told us that he was ready to die.
I couldn’t do it. If this had happened after we first left the Flamewrought Duchy, I would have killed him. I wouldn’t have liked it, but I would have done it. But now, I couldn’t.
Deneb was able to save him. I’m so relieved.
After that, we were able to save Pash’s dragon, the dragon that was ruining my island. My island is safe now. I’m safe now. I can finally feel at ease in my own home.
My companions’ deeds
All of my friends have been quite busy. While I’ve been enjoying the newfound safety of my island, they’ve been putting the world back in order.
Deneb traveled to Decent to help the witches recover from the ETE’s atrocities, Ryyan was finally coronated as Baron (I think? He kept yelling about an election, which might just be the Pendel word for coronation?), and Alice extinguished a goddamn VOLCANO!! I’m so glad to know all of them.
There are several pages that have been marked out. They appear to be a combination of self-loathing, gushing about Oh-Kae, and nervous ranting. The phrase “I killed a goddamn demon but I’m scared of THIS?” was written immediately before the following entry.
The Wedding
Wow, I completely forgot that I had a journal! It looks like someone else marked up a whole bunch of pages, which did not have any text in them.
My wedding was today. It was beautiful, the day was beautiful, and Oh-Kae was beautiful.
It’s time like these I wish I was a better writer. I mean, what can I say other than “I’m happy”?
…To hell with it, that ought to be enough.
FUCK
Oh fuck oh fuck oh god fucking dammit I fucked up
I was talking to Oh-Kae about saving her from Arbor’s dungeon, and I tried to act cool about it, and it made me remember that we never saved Archie.
It’s been a year! Has anyone even been feeding him?
We’re on our way to the duchy now. I should probably write Katarina and ask her to pardon him. Or maybe I should ask Ryyan to ask Katarina? I don’t really know her that well.
Good news: Archie’s not dead.
Bad news: He may as well be.
Spending a year in the Goulag-Oubliette was not easy on Archie’s psyche. When I went to free him, he just stared at me. He never even spoke. I can’t believe we just left him there!
…I’m going to have to buy a new journal after this. I don’t want to look at this entry ever again.
Whoops, I ended it on a sad note. Oh well.