Well the dying part was just unpleasant and I'm still kind of mad at myself about how it happened. The truth of that is I shouldn't have been there. Even if I did think there were enough people, I should have let that one go. That was my own fault.

So I sorta decided to "ground" myself, really give myself a chance to stay home and concentrate on small house things, maybe do some magic. One day this girl messages me on the network, around when Varian and Fern left. I was feeling down and...we just talked and kept talking and making jokes and nerding out! I couldn't believe how easy it felt to talk to her, and how funny she was and how pretty she was. She's running the used book store "Satellite of Love." Now me, I love books, so I wonder if I could help her unpack and stuff. Turns out Lysithea is. Gone. Which stinks, but also freed up my schedule, so. I work at the bookstore now.

And then we talked more and more after and...we admitted we liked each other. A LOT. So that's where I am now. Happy and curious and scared out of my MIND.