ninth.

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[Connor sounds slightly out of breath when he dictates into the journal, mostly because it's so cold outside but also because he's been working pretty hard out there.]

Before I came to this world, I had left my village for six months. I have now been in this place for nine. There are still things I do not understand about both this world and the world outside my village, but I am learning, I think. And there is much to learn.

I have been interested in exploring the Dead Zone again. The god of this place has the power to move us and to transform our surroundings, but I would like to explore on my own terms. There is much to learn here amongst each other, but I feel as though there is even more to learn out there.

[Connor can be found on the castle lawn, packing a long wall of snow about a foot tall, taking care to carve a furrow down the middle. He has acquired some gloves that don't really match the rest of his outfit -- they have a reflective strip down the side and are also neon pink.]

Comments

[wishmadeinfire]

Yes. I find it refreshing, and have for the past, oh, four years or so? It is surprising, how much a crown weighs one down.

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[Connor's eyebrows raise at that, and he peers over more carefully.]

You have been here that long?

[wishmadeinfire]

Hmm, yes. Five soon enough. The years just... mesh together, really.

[eaglet]

[He frowns.] I cannot imagine being here for that long.

[wishmadeinfire]

Neither could I, and yet it has happened before I truly realized. There have been other things to deal with.

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[Connor nods, thoughtfully patting the dragon-horse.]

That is true enough. Things are often very strange here.