05 | In which Howl recieves an invitation. [Dictated]

[strangewonders]

[There's a scuffling noise, as if someone's trying to keep hold of the journal while fiddling around with something else.]

My goodness. Someone needs to be told it's rather rude to nail their invitations to a person's door. I nearly thought the king had managed to track me all the way here.

[There's a pause an a bit of a laugh]

I'll have to work on my royalty-evasion, it seems. I don't suppose anyone knows something about our gracious host? Or whether this will end up being an elaborate trap?

[Howl's not usually the paranoid type, but you can never be too careful when it comes to kings.]

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[strangewonders]

It flies in the face of free will a bit, doesn't it?

[Which ought to make him feel contrary about the whole thing, and would, were he not so curious.]

[deterrence]

Indeed. [Howl, please. Isn't there any stuff more worth directing that curiosity at] And these "kings" seem quite insistent that you attend, as well.

[strangewonders]

I guess I'd better not disappoint.

[Like he's going to pass up the opportunity to dress up.]