Chilly

It's been a chilly day, and not a very pleasant one. Marquie revealed that she was with child, and that it belongs to that fool Zodiac. I was terribly disappointed, but I knew there was nothing I could do. It had been her choice to rush into this and trying to stop it or slow it had only ever pushed her further from me.

And so I told her she could do what she wanted and then started off. I found Starshine bathing in the river and chided her as it was quite a chill day. With a fellow called only Nameless I kept her company and warmed her up. The man seemed very interested in Mystra, perhaps a future convert. I am one of her priests, after all.

Starshine has fast become one of the great sources of light in my life. She's truly a special creature, though I can already see she's much older than me and has been through many painful tragedies, she still has the pure and innocent heart of someone far my junior, and that is one thing I cherish above all. Her soul flaw is something that, in the wrong eyes, might be construed as greed, but in truth is simply a dragon's desire for a horde and a girl's desire for pretty things. I say again that she is a source of light in my life.

Soon after I left her I got a call from Marquie and appeared to see R feeding from her. I could have rushed in, but that might have prompted R to bite down deeper, to the wind pipe. That in turn would have caused me to take silver to R's heart, the one sure way to kill her, or at least put her out of comission for a time.

I approached carefully, seeing some other girl, an apparent relation of Zodiac, off to the side bleeding. I had no time for her and focused on Mar. R released her after a bit and we looked to eachother for a moment, although R refused to answer any of my words. She can still hurt me, regardless of how well seperated we've become. I saw to Marquie and then her friend, leaving the girl In Marquie's care and then slipping off after givbing Mar my love.

She was hurt by my disappointment in her but I know it will heal, as will my pain at what she's done with this disagreeable fool. But that will take time, and so in the mean time I slipped off to one of my various hidey holes. It was cold, as I stated earlier, and so I gathered a blanket about myself and read, a quite good plan when the very walls radiate the icey chill outside. Winter is such a cozy time and I mean to enjoy it while Mystra yet allows me to remain indoors.