This will be the last entry in this journal ( Read more... )

Elwyn is home again from spending a few days with Sands. It's good to have her with me, where I can see her and know that she is safe ( Read more... )

It's very...quiet.

The fires have been put out, and the healers have finally left me in peace. I will never, they tell me, recover full use of my right leg. But I do not need to be able to run in order to rule, and the cane I have is good enough. I will manage ( Read more... )

Ora is seeing to the Sinad settlement. Oscirros has been brought in for interrogation; it could take some time. Mother's mark is all over her mind...Uncle Gairanos will be assisting for this, I think. And Oscirrin; she's his sister, after all.

Parts of the city are still burning.

I simply do not understand.

And it's not as though I were harming him. Or watching him undress without his knowledge.

That would've been a damn sight more fun, and I would've been far more careful not to get caught.

I do wish I knew what were actually going on.

Ora has asked me to participate in a ceremony, a ritual to raise my father so that she may speak with him. In other words, necromancy.

I am sure if it were not important, she would not ask it of me.

I wish she hadn't, though.

Ora has been telling me of what the future holds. It is fascinating to listen to -- not so long ago I was in fear for my life; now the entire thing is merely a legend that some people do not even believe truly happened ( Read more... )

...I think, as soon as the ball is over with, I am going to simply take a suite in the temple and refuse to come out for a week. It is my right as ruler of this godforsaken country to hide from my insufferable subjects when they are driving me madAnd then I will relax and if anyone so much as knocks on my door, I'll chop off their hands ( Read more... )

After Namor's visit, I admit I snuck out of bed while the healers were not paying attention. The Sanctuary was far more interesting than sleep. And, in fact, it was a good idea for me to do so. Amerigus healed my wounds -- not only my wounds, but in fact removed all of my other scars. I have been examining my reflection for some time now, it's odd ( Read more... )

The healers say I will be allowed out of bed in a few days. The stab-wound in my thigh aches, but it is the slashes to my side I find most irritating. Aside from hitting my head on the marble. My head hurtsBurik is dead. He attacked Elwyn. I...reacted appropriately. I could not fight him well enough on my own, and Lord Burik was the one to kill him ( Read more... )