[Filter: Private]

Pick up your pen and write.

Hiding will solve nothing.

Lucas.

[a long pause]

[Filter: Public]

I apologize to the visitors in the palace for not saying hello earlier.

[Filter: Private, in High Dentorian]

I should say something. People will worry.

[Filter: Pu

[Filte

[Fil

[Filter: Private]

It's like I never even left.

I should stop hiding away like this.

I can't ...

I am Lucas.

Lucas.

[more things scratched out]

[Private, in High Dentorian]

The days when we used to ask one another when we'd ever use Korin. When we wondered what the point was in learning Hanalan. When I asked if maybe we should pick up Kilian instead.

Dead.

The day when Shasta... The day when we...

...dead.

Who am I.

[Filter: Shas

[Filter: Sh

[Filter: Shast

...

[Filter: Shasta]

Shasta.

[...scratched out]

[Filter: Private]

Dead.

Dead.

...Shasta.

[...filter: Julian]

I apologize for worrying you.

[Filter: Crow]

I need to speak with you.

[Filter: Shas

[another something completely scratched out]

[...Filter: Private]

Dead.

For all intents and purposes, I have been dead.

Who am I now?

[Filter: Pri

[Filter: Jul

[Filter: Cr

[Fil

[Filter: Private]

[several things scribbled out in succession]

[and then several things blotted out in succession]

So... we're going.

Sea you later, Lark.