((This chapter is a written diary/journal entry of Lucid from before their departure)) (TW: mental health, breakdown at end, if you get uncomfortable, please stop viewing) ____________________________________________ Dear whomever reads this. My name is Lucid. Today I took my first breath. There's 6 of us. Why do we know so much? None of us can recall ever being alive, so why do we all have the minds of geniuses? Why do we all know how to communicate? How do I know how to write? The others all seemed to arrive with some sort of power over the other sapient life. Why can't I? Why do the people look at us in fear? ____________________________________________ Dear whomever reads this. The sun has risen 7 times since our arrival. We're still uncertain how we got here. The others are far more affected with our new existence than I am. Our powers are confusing. The blue Avies, Dove, has found her "ability" seems to be to immediatly put a stop to conflict. Although she herself has already caused multiple arguments. Our Siren, Typhoon, has already figured out their ability. Being able to temporally rewind time, and make a projection of past events. Sly, one of our humans, seems to be able to calm down any sort of heated situation. Our fairy, Bracken, has shown her strength at helping people understand another's perspective. Alyssa, our other human, is very.. interesting. Her ability is pretty difficult to pinpoint, but she appears to make morals of others change to be more in the middle of "good morals" and "bad morals" I am still the only one unsure of their ability. ____________________________________________ Dear reader. 4 months since our arrival. We've figured out who we all are. I had the (amazing) idea that, because of the others powers, we could help solve conflicts before they become a larger issue. Dove has become our leader, and, although she is still prone to argue, she's started to grow on me. We figured I must be an outlier out of the group lacking any power. Despite this, I still wish to be a helpful member of out team, so I've started to learn magic from some of the other shapeshifters (Yes, that is my species name.) The community we've settled in has started giving us all different titles. They've titled me the "element of sanity" which, if you ask me, isn't a very good title.. I mean, sanity is relatively subjective. I recived this title due to being the "most capable" of the group according to them. I think Dove is more capable. But something about her attacks on others has made people think otherwise. ____________________________________________ Dear diary HEYYYYYY Been a LOOOooOOng time since I last got this book out, huh? Like- couple hundred years long! Heh- Turns out we're immortal!! Dove and I have been together for around 128 years now. She's gotten better when it comes to her agression but like- still not 100% perfect, you know? She's good in public, but oh boy the arguments we've had recently... SPEAKING (writing?) OF DOVE. Vaccinium, our first freaking CHiLDDD IS NOW THREEEEEEE!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HE'S SO FREAKING AMAZING. Oh, also, uh, I've gotten better with my magic too I guess, recently learnt how to mind read and Dove loves it (she says she hates it but she thinks about how cute it is so much oh my goshhhh) BuuUUT yeah! Thats life recently!!! ____________________________________________ SO like- been another couple hundred since that entry! I keep misplacing this book. Vacc and Pidgeon are both thriving, they seem to have longer lifespans than expected but hey, I'm not complaing. Dove and I have been fighting a looooot recently. BUUUT I have an IDEAAaa So like, I found this spell recently. It would be pretty bad for society for a biiiit (like, couple thousand people would cease to exist) BUT it would mean that the continent would NEVER experience ANY conflict EVER AGAIN!!! WE'D NO LONGER HAVE TO DO SO MUCH WORK!! THE WORLD WOULD BE HAPPIER, DOVE AND I WOULD BE ABLE TO BE AROUND EACH OTHER MOREE Speaking of Dove and myself. I fINALLy bought that ring AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Probably going to give it to her a little bit after I do the spell, just to make sure she can adjust to life without work because I know that could stress her out a bit at first. Buuut YEh, life is doing great right nowww YIPEPE ____________________________________________ WHY?! WHY THE HELL!?!?! I'M NOT A MONSTER?!?!! I'MNOTAMONSTERIMNOTAMONSTER!! WHYDOTHEYALLHATEME?! WHATDIDIDO?!?!! WHYISSHESCREAMING?!?!! SHECANTDOTHISTOME IMFINE IMFINE IMFINE IMFINE IMSANE IMSANE IMSANE IMSANE IMNOTAMONSTER WHYAMIAMONSTER IMNOTABADPERSONISWEAR SOWHYDOTHEYALLKEEPSCREAMING GETOUTOFMYEHEAD GETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGET-
