Another letter to Gran
Dear Gran,
I went clothes shopping for the first time ever! I like my dress a lot but Ryyan said it wasn’t really appropriate for all the fancy stuff we’ll be doing soon. I googled “goth prom dress” found a really cute gown that was in all the colors I like!
The shopkeeper said I should get these really dumb pointy shoes that I couldn’t walk in, but I think my boots are fine (but I did get some shoe polish so they’d look super nice). I also got a little black dress, which I guess is good for pretty much every situation? I like it because it has a heart in it!
Everyone else got super cute clothes too. But they were expensive!!
We also went to a… prison and Gran it was just awful. I don’t ever want to go in a prison again, everyone was sad or miserable and all the prisoners looked like they were starving and abused. Everyone was like that dog we took from away that really bad hunter when I was a kid, the one we healed for a long time and even then always had that limp.
We found the Nimhish friends we met earlier and they were in such a sad state and they were pretending to be dumb animals so I had to do something! Alice and I managed to maybe get them released to us so we could get them away from that horrible place.
Gran I’ve seen a lot of new things since I left but this was the first thing that made me angry. Like, really really angry. I’m mad just thinking about it right now. I don’t like that people treat other people like this. It’s wrong and I hope I can do something about it, I want to use everything I learned from you to make things like this not happen.
Oh I didn’t mention before but we have a new dragon following us around, he’s blue and his name is Pash and I think he likes kissing a lot??? But not like him kissing, but like getting everyone else to kiss each other?? He’s super weird and I don’t really get it but I guess stories like that are something else the Seasonal Dragons like so… Gran have you ever kissed someone? Is that like a common thing people do? I don’t really know anything about that since it was only really ever us and the chickens in the forest, and chickens don’t have lips. No one who visited us ever offered to kiss me, anyway…
I only ask because apparently Ryyan’s aunt is trying to find a “suitor” for him and I guess she thinks the rest of us could be his suitor? I don’t really understand but Pash said kissing is involved… and a whole bunch of other things he rattled off when I asked him, things like trust and companionship and love and attraction and some other stuff. It was hard to follow and I don’t know what magnets have to do with it, but he said it’s pretty much the most important thing to him. I guess its a whole deal that’s like… more than just being friends? And like, I’ve only just made my first friends when I started this journey and I like them a lot so I guess its like that but different?
I’ll let you know if I figure it out. But anyway I guess we’re gonna be in some kind of contest to be Ryyan’s suitor and I’m gonna try my hardest because you’ve always told me anything worth doing is worth putting your whole heart into! I hope there’s like a magic contest, I will definitely win that!
Gran I hope you sorted out everything with the hut and I hope the chickens are OK. Alice looks like she wants to go to bed so I’m gonna put out the light and go to sleep now too.
Love,
Deneb