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Tue 30th Jul 2024 02:49

Session 23 Journal Entry

by Callum Virtaernus

More and more I start to see Torm's hand at work in my life. Whether it be the people he brings into it, or their influence on it, I start to realize that there is a plan in everything. Not everyone ascribes that particular belief. Still working on Orion, but I think he might be coming around. Especially after his sister's return...
 
I can scarcely believe it, but between the inexpressible gratitude, the moments of sheer, profound relief, and the hysteria of joy in her return, I convince myself again and again that it's real. She's real. She's returned to me. To Zora. To all of us.
 
Torm be praised. And I also offer my sincere thanks to the Raven Queen and her servants who returned my wife to me as I returned Ushen to her. I suppose there is balance in that. Even the Goddess of Death must abide by this principle, to a god so unlike her. But there can be understanding even in the most unlikely of allies, I've come to realize. In serving Torm, I freed Ushen. In freeing him, I restored a piece of the Raven Queen's influence. In that, I was led to where I am now.
 
In the guest suite of Valenier manor, penning this journal amidst the candlelight with Orianna sleeping peacefully beside me. It all brought me here. It all started with the Loyal Fury. He is as the Lady of Fate described: honorable and stoic in that virtue to the end of time. He does not speak to me directly as she does to Ushen, but he still speaks if I am willing to listen. And the words are all the more profound the more I open my heart and soul to his influence.
 
As it was in freeing Durnan. As it will be in the days to come, I'm sure. And now, my wife is with me again, and Zora's mother can guide her in ways I know no other is fit for. We enter a dangerous time for all our world, perhaps our entire existence, the planes included. If this is to be the end, then at the very least, as I go about fighting this good fight till my last breath, I am grateful for one thing in particular, and that is that I am granted even a single minute more with the love of my life.
 
I was lost for a long time. I realized recently that I've found my way again. I'm convinced of it all the more profoundly every time I hold her in my arms.
 
Torm be praised indeed. I go to enact his will, now and always.

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  1. Session I: Fate?
  2. Session II: Deadly Intrigue
  3. Use
  4. Session 4: Finding Floon
  5. Session 5: Found Floon...And a lot More
  6. Nomad and Durnan
  7. Session 6: Nomad's Reflection
  8. A Beast Escapes
  9. Session 7: Nomad's reflection
  10. Old Wrongs and Kindred Souls
  11. Session 8: Nomad's reflection
  12. Session 9: Nomad's Reflection
  13. Session 10: Nomad's Reflection
  14. Session 11a: Nomad's Reflection
  15. Session 12: Nomad's Reflection
  16. Session 13: Nomad's Reflection
  17. Session 14: Zora's Reflection
  18. Session 15: Nomad's Reflection
  19. Session 16: Callum's Reflection
  20. Session 17: Callum's Reflection
  21. Session 18: Callum's Reflection
  22. Session 19: Callum's Reflection
  23. Session 20: Callum's reflection
  24. Session 21 Journal Entry
  25. Session 22 Journal Entry
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  30. Callum's Reflection: Session 24
  31. Session 25 Journal Entry: Callum's Reflection
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