Drew 1, Abyssals 0

Well it finally happened. The showdown with Animus. I suppose I can keep you in suspense about that a bit longer though. The day started out typically enough as I went and talked to Sol. Oddly enough Neidhalts son appeared, having been made human for his assault on Tallanth. Sol thought to take additional revenge on him and tainted his spirit despite my attempts to prevent her. I yelled at her for it and she said she'd fix him. It kinda scares me what she can do with her powers. The poor guy is in love with her now and his soul is turning black. Just in the blink of an eye...

After that I went to visit Tal and she was trying to catch fish for pets. I thought this was terrible but even still I managed to talk a few fish into hopping into her pot. Talking to Tal I realized that she's so much more like a human than Sol, and more innocent as well, despite what she is. She's really nice to talk to and she's not as mischievious as Sol. She also likes to have pets and to take baths (ick!) well I suppose I cant hold one thing against her. We parted ways after I helped her get her fish and I went to the castle.

There I found Sabe struggling with his young dragon, who was trying to build up a horde from the castles riches (as dragons are wont to do) I was joined by an old friend who shares my red dragon blood. We've often disagreed on the subject of draconics as he is for the preservation of all of them and I was willing to kill those that were evil. However watching this little green one I realized how innocent and likeable she was even in her supposed evil-doing and tried to give her a bit of advice. He and I agreed that the young dragon was more than likely to best Sabe in a test of wills and probably would enslave him and he said he'd talk to her about this. Before we could do this though I heard Tal was in need of help so we went to see her.

My friend and I had an interesting conversation on the way to Tal's house. I asked him what I should do if a dragon were hurting people and wouldn't stop. He said that I should try to subdue it rather than killing it and give it the chance to change. I think he was right, that maybe if the evil Nic had lived she'd have had the chance to change as well. I guess it's a chance we all deserve. From now on I've decided to never take another life.

She was trying to haul a twenty gallon kettle to her cottage (the kettle containign the fish she'd caught) and was not making much progress so we both helped her and sat down in her cottage which I must say is rather odd. There was a pool of swirling water which she used as a bath and the entire place was decorated with stuffed pigs. Made of cloth mind you, not actual pigs that were killed and stuffed. Like I said she's too nice for that kinda stuff. She warned me that Sol was different and I can kinda understand that though I like to think Sol isn't that bad.

Well Neidhalt soon arrived and I informed him of what had happened to his son. He was rather angry and Tal said we should run and I agreed even though he didn't seem to be cross with us. We ran off but eventually he calmed down and we returned and I told him to let Sol handle it as she'd promised she would make things better. I really want to trust her on that, I don't know I'm just too trusting sometimes but you can't lose faith in people, can you?

After leaving Tal and Neidhalt alone went back to the castle and my mom(alex) was there and so was Eowyn (my cousin) and her boyfriend Poison. I really wanted to talk to him and make friends but he started acting arrogant right away so after a while of arguing I just told him to bugger off. Mom was still all grumpy and didn't want to talk to me at all. I really hate it when she gets like that. Marquie, Siona's adopted daughter, talked to me plentifully though and I promised to turn us both into fish soon so we could go for a swim and she asked me for some help with some ailment she had and I said I would do what I could. Later in the night I sensed Animus was near and put my plan into action to rescue Maris.

I went to Maris' house to speak with the duplicate Maris. Animus sensed this and sent a lackey after me. I took him down and just when I would have normally killed him I stopped and sent him back to the abyss. Then Animus came and I told him I had made a double of Maris, which he thought was the real one and kidnapped. I told him if Iwasn't allowed to cast my magics on the false Maris (really, the real one) that both would die. The rouse worked and he brought back the hostage. I used a little illusion to make it look like I'd blown him up and then Animus said to try to kill him. I said I wasn't there to kill him, and that I only wanted to save him.

I tried to use my magics to take his soul back from the abyss but it had such a hold on him that there was nothing I could do. Our mother appeared and Animus soon became sorrowful and told me to look aafter Maris, which I promised to do. I really don't think he wants to be a servant of the abyss and I'm sure he's going to try to escape soon. Well mom didnt really care that I'd saved Maris, she was more worried about Animus and I left her with him to go talk to Maris and Marquie. Maris soon fell asleep and I talked to Marquie and using some magics found out she had dragon blood in her which troubled her since it was Siona in her dragon form that accidentally orphaned her.

Well I calmed her down and she decided I'm her big brother now, a position a lot of people seem to think fits me well, liek Ariel and Wraith. So I put her to bed and then went to find mom. She was in the abyss in a lunatic search for Animus. I dragged her back and tried to calm her down and I promised her we'd look for Animus together. I really just want to fix everything so we can get along like we used to before all this crazy stuff with the council and my brother and the Tremblant started. I guess 'm kind of jealous that she spends so much time away from me and when we do talk it's as if I'm not even there...

Well anyhow after this my day was just about over and I went to bed.