Accidental success

[actually yesterday's words]

Today's intended experiment was not followed through, but I did mostly work on projects I intended to work on instead of getting lost. Let's call that a partial victory.

To do: my profile interests have not been edited since maybe 2008? they're probably overdue for an update, and maybe I can find some communities on here I'd be interested in joining. Communities are something I've missed since the days of LiveJournal and maybe there are some active enough to be worth participating in. There weren't, last I checked.

I suppose few people want to be the first dancer at the party.

Lin Hai's Journal - 3

We opted to keep the oni stone and transport it ourselves to the imperial city. To keep it from feeding on more of our belongings I was able to scrounge an armful of damaged or defective glassware from one of the market sellers but am uneasy with how pleased the stone… Matri… was with this.

Before I could worry too much we were waylaid by an enormous animate glove. Or I think we were waylaid? The Princess, in her customary manner, gave it friendly courtesy and won over the bizarre apparition and its hidden master, who I still mistrust but who seems to like us well enough for now. We share our fire this night, and I hope the morning’s light will not show us a different face.

I do not know what to make of this man, who claims to be from a land “Scandinavia” on the far side of China, yet I have never heard of it. He tells tall tales, of Jotuns and a goddess of the dead who loves him so much she will not keep him, and of many worlds beyond this and our home. How much to believe him I do not know, yet he does not feel false.