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So this is what he's been sitting on, huh?

Eblar ...

Frig, how many years has that been now? A whole lot, that's for sure. And if you'd asked me a month ago, I'd have said that I'd just as well never go back. It was hard work down there.

... but there was good stuff, too, and ... I don't know. It might be nice, I guess, feeling useful again. Bringing Mom and Dad home some actual money. Corrina was always so proud of her big brother working in the big city. Maybe ...

I don't know.

[Filter: Mom]

Uh, hey Mom!

[Filter: Private]

Ugh, shit.

[Filter: Mom]

Oh, Dragons, Mom, I am really, really sorry. He didn't mean anything by it, he didn't know, I mean, it's been years since I've seen him last and I'd always talked about Corrina and it just hadn't come up in the last few days and --

Are you okay? I'm so sorry. He feels awful.

Whoa, holy frig!!

Hey, uh, Mom! Remember ... when I used to go down to Eblar and find work in the wintertimes?

[Filter: Private]

It's always hardest on these days.

Hard not to see her smiling and clapping her hands in every corner. Cori loved the festival like most people can only dream of, and ... it's just hard to have it without her.

But if I show it, how much I miss her, Mom's going to fall into it, too. So I've got to keep smiling.

Hey, that's what Corrina would want, too.

... Dragons, I miss her so bad, somedays.

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I am about to sit down a truly awesome smelling Festival dinner, and let me tell you, I can't wait to put it in my mouth.

Also I got a bunch of awesome presents and basically this is the best day of the entire year.

Hey, what's everybody's favourite part of Festival dinner? I think I'm all about the potatoes. Smothered in crazy and butter. Frig, I want to eat right now.

I'm starting to think that naming Cream Cream was a really bad idea, because now it just seems appropriate to feed her all sorts of cream whenever I feed her, and she's already twice the size of Peaches.

I'm seeing this becoming an issue when she has to roll down the stairs, I don't know!

[Filter: Lila and Allison]

Dragons, you two. Just how long are you going to be down there?

Sorry. I just -- I thought it would be a pretty quick thing, but all the talk in Lireth today is about how Lady Felicia's going to have another baby in a month and how everyone is hoping it'll be a boy and I'm thinking ... she got pregnant at Lady Isanae wedding, right? And then Lord Hasten took Allison and went South. That was so long ago that she's going to give birth?

We miss you at home. Mom won't say it, Lila, but it's really killing her, how long it's been since she's seen you. After Corrina ... And Allison, your mother is having a hard time of it, too. You know how your brothers and sisters are, they never write, never visit. They always were distant, and you were the only one Aunt Juniper could count on.

... I'm not trying to make you guys feel awful, but come on. You're killing us, here. I know it's not your call and it's all in Lord Hasten's hands, but can't you do antyhing?

All right! Our double kitties have names!

We finally found something that we agreed on! Mostly thanks to that one suggestion we got from someone here, I forget who it was. Sorry! Anyways ...

Peaches and Cream, everybody!

Alright, so I told Lila that I would tell this awesome story!

So everybody here knows about the kitten by now, right? Refresher for those who didn't read! We have mice. And our barn cats are jerks. So I sort of stole a kitten from one of them and then didn't know what to do with it cause I thought my Mom was going to flip out. And I hid it in my room for a while. That's the part everybody knows.

Okay, so here's the part that's new!

So Mom comes back from Lireth from getting food and some building supplies to at least patch holes in the pantry. And she's like hey Robin! Come help me unload this stuff, your Dad's leg is bugging him again! (Cause he took that bad fall last ... uh, year. Sometime. I think.) So I go out to do that, and she has ...

Another kitten!

What??

Yeah, how about that! She had the exact same idea and went about bought a city kitten in town. Isn't that crazy? Who pays money for a cat when you have cats in your barn! She says that she didn't want her cat to have anything to do with the barn cats ... but it sort of backfired thanks to me. And now we have two kittens.

The end.

Okay, that story was better in real life but I still think it's pretty great.

Anyways, they're both girls and Mom and I are fighting over what to name them.

[Filtered from Mom]

Okay, uhhh, send help!

One of the barn cats actually had kittens a few weeks ago! I was out there looking in the stalls and stuff and when I realized that, I rememebered what one of you, I forget who sorry! said about the cats being good to get rid of the mice and hey that seemed better than the traps ... for some reason ... I don't know.

I just acted!

I grabbed one of the kittens and took it to my room! And now I don't know if I made a big mistake because it looks big enough but I don't know what to feed it or anything or what to do with it and I really don't want to let Mom see it until I have it ... you know, used to people. Our barn cats are jerks. And this one has to be cuddly and nice if I'm going to let it eat mice right in my house. And until I get it there, Mom isn't going to be impressed ...

Uhhh, so if anybody has tips on how to fix what an idiot I am they'd be totally appreciated! So ... yeah! Send me your cat tips! Thanks!

So, like, we put out some traps to see if there were any mice in the house, and like, I'm torn here.

On the one hand, mice are pretty cute. They have those little ears and whiskers, and they make cute noises, and Cori used to flip out whenever we tried to kill them. So there's that.

But on the other hand, there are apparently so many mice in our house that it's actually totally gross. Like, they're everywhere. And there are so many.

I really don't know what to think.