[Filter: Private]

It couldn't hurt to ask ... I'm sure he'd tell me, if he'd tell anymore. With everything we've been though. Ah, and he ... well, he feels he owes me something, doesn't he? He'll share a little esoteric knowledge, to make up for it, I think, won't he ...?

[Filter: Jonathan]

I ... had a thought, Jonathan. Ah, well, not a thought, I suppose, more a ... a curiousity. Just passing, really, but I ... I wonder, if you might be able to ...?

[Filter: Private]

Ah, and then there's ...

[Filter: Jace]

Ah, Jace, I ... well, I thought it might be nice to go for dinner sometime. Nothing fancy, just ... a little something, out in the city ... wouldn't that be nice?

[Filter: Private]

And ...

... ah, no, I ... I'll wait, on that, still. I can afford to wait, can't I ...?

[Filter: Kail]

Ah, so ... Kail ...

Ah, well, how did things go, last night? Did you notice anything ...? I hope you remembered to pay close enough attention ... ah, that was the point, after all, to check up on Sawyer and Pearl ...

[Filter: Kail]

Ah, Kail, I ... I'd been thinking, lately ... ah, well, ever since all that work we'd done setting Sawyer and Pearl up together like we did ... I, ah ... I don't really feel as if we've done any follow-up on it, at all. I was wondering ... ah, well, I ...

Have you spoken to him at all, about it? I ... I had some words with Pearl, but she was so close-mouthed. Ah, just private, I suppose ... and I do understand, I just ... I feel as if we should be doing more to help. Sawyer is so shy ...

[Filter: Jonathan]

... this will sound ... strange. I ...

Ah ... I ... when ... when everything with Lauren first ... first happened, I ... I spoke to you, and I was ... angry, and ... and I didn't really want to listen to anything you had to say. I ... I just wanted you to feel bad, to ... to fix it ...

But ... ah, well, we ... you and I ... we've come a long way, since then, and ... and I ... ah, well, I suppose I just want to understand. You must have had a reason for doing what you did, I ... I know that, I do. How could you not? But I don't ... I don't understand what it could be ... I want to understand, Jonathan. Help me ... help me understand.

[Filter: Franelcrew]

Ah, I ... I just wanted to thank you all, again, for last week ... ah haha, I've been thinking about it, ever since. I just ... it means ... ah, so much, truly, that you even thought to do something so generous, much less to put it all together as you did ...

It really ... ah, it really meant the world. Thank you ...

[Filter: Lauren]

I ...

... I've been ... thinking, of late. I ... the day, coming up. In my home, it means ... it means taking time to remember what you've lost ... to be sure you never forget what they gave up ... it's a solemn day ... a sad day.

But I ...

I'm so tired of being sad. I ... ever since Corrina ... ... it just seems like even when we're at our most happy, we're always just barely holding back tears.

I think ...

I think the people that I've lost won't mind, that I'm thinking that way, will they ...?

[Filter: Pearl]

Ah, Pearl, I ... I really think that Sawyer loved what you put together for him. You did a very good job, and it ... ah, it was ... it really was nice.

I ... I really ... don't mean to pry, I ... please, if you think I am, I won't say another word, but ... ah, Sawyer is ... Sawyer is such a old, dear friend of mine, in addition to being my sworn sword, and ... ah, well, you know how he is ... so shy, I ... ah, I never quite know what he's thinking, or what's happening in his life, and ah, I ... well, I was just ... wondering, really ... how are ... things, between the two of you ...?

[Filter: Private]

I can't ...

Dragons, he ... he was so red that I thought he was jsut going to ... to explode with embarrassment, but he ... ah haha ... he never stopped once, did he ...? Going on and on ... to an entire room full of complete ... complete strangers about how much he loved me, about how he ... how he wasn't going to let me go, how ... ah, how ... lucky he was ....

I don't think... I don't think I've ever felt so ... so ... loved, in all of my life. I know ... I know it was awful for him, I know he didn't want to do it, but ... ah, but that's why it meant so much wasn't it? That's why ...

Ah haha ... I don't think I'll never stop smiling ... never again. Ah hahah~

[Filter: Public]

Mn, it's such a lovely fall day outside~ There's such a little nip in the air, and I swear, some of the trees have started to turn ... ah haha, autumn has finally come, I suppose~

I'd love to talk a ... a nice, long walk ... ah, would anyone like to ...? But not a big group, if no one minds, just ... just one, or two ... walking along the roads on this perfectly lovely day ...~

[Filter: Franelcrew]

Ah, I ... I hate to sound as if I'm simply echoing a crowd, but ... thank you, everyone, for all the lovely, thoughtful gifts. Ah haha, isn't everyone just ... don't you just feel wonderful, right now? I ... I truly do ... I can't think of any group of people I'd have rather ... ah well, I ... I'm happy to have been with you all for today, and I ... ah, I'll be savouring every hour of it that's left.

[Filter: Jace]

I'm ... beginning to think that you

... ah, I hope you don't ... well, you ... you seemed terribly ... ah, embarrased, this morning, I ... I hope you're not ... ... you're not upset at me, are you? I just ... I just wanted to ... ah, well, I ...

Ah ...

[the writing is very hurried and frantic]

[Filter: Jace]

Ah, Jace, I ... I'm fine, I ... I'm down with Lauren, and Rae, and we ... our door is locked, and we tried to barricade it, but everything was bolted down, and ... and ... oh, and there's such noises coming from above ... footsteps and steel and it's terrifying and I just ... I ... ah, I don't know what to do ...

Dragons, that was ... ah, unexpected, to say the least ...

[Filter: Private]

My health is just fine ... I feel stronger every day. I know I could do it ...

Ah, I do want to go ... quite badly, in fact, so much that I ... ah, well, it does sound wonderful, and I've heard so much about it, and ... and I did have a place there, whether it be permanent or not. I ... I would love to go ... I deserve to go ...

But ...

... ah, but, well, I ... I was fortunate, in the strangest of ways, to have missed all of the mess that was still to come from ... from all of that. I ... I went through something very difficult ... something I still do not understand ... no one is going to try and start a fight, now ...

Going on the pleasure barge ... that's ... ah, that is ... not a good idea, most likely, at least not without ...

... he wouldn't actually forbid me. And ... and actually ... asking, that would ... ah, that would be far better than ...

Yes, I ... I do think ...

[Filter: Jace]

Ah, Jace. How are you, today ...?