Interludes

How do I summarize these past few weeks...?
 
Instead of taking the nice shortcut that will get us to our goal and get them out of my life as quickly as possible, they wanted to go nearly all the way to Colchester. Whatever. It hardly makes a difference to me what happens. I'm just here for the ride.
 
So off we went, taking far too many detours. Saved a town from a necromancer, got railroaded down to Colchester since bandits apparently took over the road, nearly got eaten by a giant plant, met a talking tree (???), rescued some bandit kid from his terrible mother who thought running off into the woods and sending her children to mug people was a good idea... Yep, this "adventure" is a mess.
 
To be honest, there were some nice moments. Telling Slate that the ale was apple juice was a highlight. Though that one kind of backfired on me since now he's completely addicted and won't shut up about booze. On second thought, maybe drugging my tiny butterfly dragon wasn't the nicest thing to do, even for me.
 
Things went downhill from there. On the way to Colchester, we found... him. I don't want to write his name. I'm afraid even that might summon him.
 
I don't like him. I certainly don't trust him. But if what he said about the Grey cores is right, then we need him to be able to destroy them. And in return, he'll give us... something. Who knows what this creepy skeleton has access to. I just hope we're not handing over Grey cores to some lich king.
 
There's just one thing. I don't know if I'm losing my mind, but he called me by my name. And the story he told, of being consumed by the Grey, sounded eerily familiar. Maybe I'm just crazy. He seemed to know who all of us were, after all. Who knows?
 
I'm just keeping that necklace shoved in my bag at night. I can't sleep wearing it.
 
Side note. Vela gave me a present. It wasn't much, just that old wayfinder the guy in Wolfpine gave her, but I don't like it. I shouldn't accept anything else from her. I don't want to be in her debt.
 
I don't know how to feel about her. Maybe I hated her a bit after she "confronted" me in the middle of a necromantic dungeon, but after that got solved it's back to sunshine and stars with her. The weird thing is it doesn't feel entirely fake, but I wish she'd stop being nice to me. It doesn't make any sense. It'd be easier if I could hate her, but I just can't bring myself to.
 
I'm too tired to hate anything these days... I just wish I could go to sleep.